Mozambique

Commercial Partnership ZVDA

Another public-private partnership has been formed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. In a 9-month project in 2023, Weather Impact & Zambezi Valley Development Agency (ZVDA) joined efforts to provide smallholder farmers in the Mozambiquan Zambezi valley with location-specific weather forecast via SMS.

Twice a week, Weather Impact delivered SMS ready information tailored to individual farmer locations, and ZVDA takes charge of the SMS dissemination to farmers‘ phone number.
The SMS text contains:
– Rainfall amount, rainfall probability and temperature; for the next 4 days ahead
– Messages around the start of the rain season when our rain season indicator forecasts its onset

This project determines farmer’s satisfaction with the weather forecast, and provided a base for the sustainable continuation of this service.