Climate Resilience: How Tobacco Farmers Can Adapt to a Warming World
Climate change is making tobacco farming more difficult—higher temperatures, erratic rainfall, increased pest pressure. Climate resilience strategies exist: drought-resistant varieties, water management, agroforestry. The farmers who need them can't access them.
A tobacco farmer in Malawi faces increasingly unpredictable rains. The traditional planting calendar no longer works. Drought-resistant varieties exist—but they're not available to smallholders. Water management techniques exist—but they require investment. **Climate resilience for tobacco farmers is possible—but it requires resources, technical assistance, and institutional support that the global community has not provided. The farmers who are most vulnerable to climate change are the farmers least equipped to adapt.**
