RESURGENCE: Resilience is Africa’s future - Climate Adaptation Stories from Africa

That Africa is one of the most climate-impacted continents in the world is not in doubt. With cataclysmic cyclones, ferocious floods, dreadful droughts and horrendous heat waves sweeping across Africa, the continent is the frontline where the battle with the climate is the fiercest.

These events have compounded the existing challenges in Africa where food insecurity, energy poverty and, sometimes, climate-incompatible development are rampant.

But Africa is also rising. From Senegalese women replanting mangroves to reclaim coastal rice fields to a Kenyan community preserving Indigenous seeds for food sovereignty and a county solarising irrigation, Africans are doing everything in their power to survive, to salvage their livelihoods and to protect their homes and heritage.

This photo book is a collection of African stories of hope in the face of the biggest and most frightful threat to humanity. Stories of African solutions to a global problem, informed by local needs and driven by local innovation. It is efforts such as the ones highlighted in this photo book that will, ultimately, enhance the adaptive capacity of communities around the world to cope with the climate crisis.