In a crowded banquet hall in Niamey, a dozen people gather around a large piece of paper, chatting excitedly in Hausa and French. They are a diverse...
In the Dagana district of Senegal, Moustapha Aminata walks out to his rice paddies and looks to the sky for signs of rain. In 2009, floods wiped out his crop, but now dry years seem to come around more frequently than ever and Moustapha worries about how he and his family will withstand another year of low yields.
Africa is highly vulnerable to climate variability and climate change. When drought strikes and farmers are unprepared, food security and livelihoods...
The Challenge Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, smallholder farmers are at the frontlines of an increasingly variable and changing climate. Frequent and...