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Zambia: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks

By Linda Spahia

September 24, 2025

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Linda Spahia. "Zambia: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks", Selected Issues Papers 2025, 127 (2025), accessed September 26, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229025768.018

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Summary

Zambia faces growing challenges from climate-related natural disasters, particularly floods and droughts, which have become more frequent and severe in recent years. These events disproportionately affect the country’s large agricultural sector—especially vulnerable subsistence farmers—and the reliance on hydroelectric power makes it susceptible to drought-related disruptions in electricity supply, with cascading effects across the economy. In response, Zambia has identified its adaptation priorities and has developed a comprehensive legal and policy framework that aligns climate resilience with its long-term development agenda through national and sectoral strategies. However, implementation remains constrained by limited coordination across government levels and the absence of robust systems to track climate-related expenditures within the national budget. Effective implementation will depend on its ability to mobilize resources—both through domestic revenue and by attracting external financing.

Subject: Agricultural sector, Climate change, Climate finance, Climate policy, Economic sectors, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, Infrastructure, National accounts, Natural disasters, Population and demographics

Keywords: Agricultural sector, Agricultural Sector, Climate change, Climate finance, Climate policy, Climate Resilience, Climate Shocks, Electricity, Emissions trading, Farming, Greenhouse gas emissions, Infrastructure, Legal Framework, Maize, Natural disasters, Policy Framework, Resource Mobilization, Zambia

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