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At Issue: More Ominous than Climate Change? Global Policy Threats to Africa Food Production

by Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson Abstract In international fora, climate change discussions center on how farmers can “mitigate” and “adapt” to weather variability to increase food production. Instead, African smallholder food producers are employing ways to “resist” and “sustain,” for international policies in the name of climate change threaten their farming systems, biodiverse genetic wealth, […]