ACT-Z (Agricultural Climate Smart Transformation – Zimbabwe) Impact Circle

Protecting our Planet
ACT-Z addresses food security and climate resiliency in Zimbabwe by collaborating with the Zimbabwe Meteorological and Agricultural ministries to develop and communicate usable weather and crop data for farmers.

The Need

A group of interested parties including representatives from UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazard Center and the Zimbabwe Meterological Service Department asked KIN to activate a Circle for ongoing conversations to assist improving Zimbabwe’s food security and climate resiliency. (Circle)

Project Impact

KIN offered its Circle platform as a communications vehicle between different members, and as a way to enlist new interested parties. It has helped ACT-Z secure a team of people to develop a website for the Meteorological Services Department as the first step to providing climate data.

KIN connected ACT-Z with Weather Impact, the organization in the Netherlands which provides agribusinesses with easy to access, reliable weather forecasts and climate information. KIN also arranged for ACT-Z to meet a climate expert from the Agromet Services division of the Indian Meteorological Department to learn more about their advisories to farmers and how they communicate daily crop/agrometeorology advisories for each of the several hundred ag districts and for their different crops based on recent and forecast weather conditions via the internet.

Here is the website for which ACT-Z KIN Impact Circle participants collaborated and provided funding.