This study provides information to make strategic decisions on how to best support people living in poverty to adapt their livelihoods in a way that makes them more resilient to climate change.

A thorough response to climate change, which builds on existing responses to disaster risk and natural climate variability, requires focussing on two aspects:

- increasing and improving people’s ability to prepare for, and respond to, extreme weather events (such as more frequent flooding) and increasing climate variability

- investing in mechanisms and systems for adapting to gradual climate change (for example, where overall rainfall patterns in a region change and a particular crop is no longer viable).

This study takes a regional perspective but focuses mainly on national and local conditions in three of the countries where Oxfam GB works, namely Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia;

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