 I'm Emmanuel Jr. Souza and I'm from Malawi which is a nation located in southern Africa. Currently I'm in my third year researching on climate change and crop production at the Open Universities School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences. My research looks at the relationship between climate change and macadamia tree growth and yields amongst more hoda farmers. This research is very important to Malawi because 90% of the food consumed in the country is maize-based. However, macadamia offers an alternative to the cereal-based diets so it can be used as part of food security. But also with the negative markets returns from tobacco, macadamia has been identified as an alternative to tobacco for income generation. I am currently waking hand in hand with the Nenomacademia Trust and the Open University to try and identify suitable areas to grow or plant the trees for this initiative. But I'll also be involved in analyzing the soil samples to try and understand the amount of carbon in the soils and also the benefits which these trees have to the small hoda farmers.