This note explores the climate, development, and poverty nexus, and discusses some of the intricacies behind low adaptive capacity in African countries. Recognizing that this is a very complex set of issues that is still being researched and understood, the note focuses on three themes:

1. the impact of poverty on vulnerability to climate change;
2. the impact of climate variability on poverty; and
3. the impact of development on adaptive capacity.

In discussing these themes, examples are drawn from countries in the Sahel, eastern Africa, and southern Africa.

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