HEA Takes Climate Action to the Show Floor
The Higher Education Authority (HEA) is exhibiting at the 97th Agriculture & Commercial Show with a bold and thought-provoking message of “Adapting to Climate Change through Higher Education.”
Our exhibition, anchored in natural wood and enriched with interactive visuals, is a physical manifestation of the show’s theme: “Adapting to Climate Change.” By interpreting this national theme through the lens of higher education, HEA is demonstrating how knowledge, innovation, and policy can converge to drive Zambia’s climate resilience.
Zambia is already feeling the heat. In 2024, 66% or two-thirds of Zambia’s major Agro-ecological zones were affected by drought, threatening both food security and rural livelihoods. This reality makes adaptation not optional, but urgent.
Thus, HEA confronts this head-on that climate change is not tomorrow’s problem but it is today’s reality.
Visitors can interact with a Zambian climate vulnerability map showing changing rainfall patterns, drought-prone regions, and heat-affected areas.
HEA is not just an observer of Zambia’s climate response, it is a driver. The quality assurance mandate enables the Authority to equip Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to Accredit climate-relevant learning programmes, Audit curricula for sustainability alignment, Support climate-focused innovation and research, and ensure higher education contributes to green growth.
HEA has showcased 32 accredited programmes across public and private HEIs that directly tackle climate change, sustainability, and environmental resilience.
HEA’s oversight has enabled HEIs to go beyond the classroom:
- Copperbelt University (CBU) houses the Africa Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Mining and leads innovative projects in agroforestry, organic fertiliser production (bokashi), aquaculture, and even insect protein farming for animal feed.
- University of Lusaka (UNILUS) integrates green design in campus infrastructure and works with communities to co-create real-world climate adaptation strategies.
- Zambia College of Agriculture (Mpika & Monze) trains frontline farmers and agronomists in sustainable, climate-smart agriculture.
- Mulungushi University offers short courses on climate strategy design and leads Zambia’s Z4ABC project in the Lower Zambezi corridor.
Mukuba University hosts the UniPod Innovation Hub under UNDP’s Timbuktoo initiative—encouraging student-led green technology development.
At the heart of climate adaptation is one resource we can scale, knowledge. From students learning to test soil quality and plant trees, to researchers redesigning livelihoods for a changing climate, higher education is Zambia’s silent but powerful response to climate risks.
HEA’s message is clear: adapting to climate change begins in the lecture hall, the research lab, the community field school. Education is not just preparation for the future, it is protection for it.
Visit our stand to view and pledge to climate-smart education. Lets change Zambia together for the better.
Visit HEA’s stand is located at F7, near ZNBC and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
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