Everyday realities of climate change adaptation in Mozambique

► Multi-sited ethnography of climate change adaptation in Mozambique analyzes political and social responses to floods. ► Stakeholders politicise climate change adaptation according to their own interpretations and interest. ► Local people seek continuity by incorporatingadaptationin their lifestyles and institutional interests. ► Powerful people - economically, socially, politically-are more successful in appropriating adaptationthan the poor. ► This is alarming because disaster response aims to target the poor as primary beneficiaries.