Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Face Collapse

Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Face Collapse

Africa’s smallholder farmers are being battered by a “perfect storm” of climate shocks—simultaneous extreme heat, prolonged droughts, floods, and rising temperature variability. According to Dr. John Choptiany, the Climate Adaptation Expert and lead of the Resilience and Climate Adaptation Program at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), these farmers are ill-equipped to cope and […] The post Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Fa…