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Africa: Information key to climate change adaptation, say small farmers

2008-12-19, Issue 413

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/environment/52905

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One of the first studies to explore what persuades small farmers to adapt to climate change has found that access to information and technical institutions are the most important factors. A survey of 1,000 Ethiopian cereal crop farmers, carried out by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Nile River basin, Ethiopia, found that poor access to technology and weak informal networks are also hampering farmers' ability to adapt.

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