At local level, many grassroots initiatives are cropping up to tackle unforeseen climate-related events, but improvising and instinctive ways of working are often overlooked in public policy.
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In the past, farmers have balanced their political beliefs against market logic. How much pressure can farmers endure?
Kenya’s irrigation development is more advanced than official records show because they exclude what some farmers are doing.
The sub-region’s approach to free trade agreements, whether in the form of economic partnerships with the EU or regional and continental integration needs a rethink.
The Canadian dialogue on agriculture’s role in climate change is murky. Its time to be more clear and vocal on where challenges and opportunities lie.
American farmers have suffered the most as a result of China’s retaliatory tariffs yet surveys show they still back the president and his trade war.
Expansion of cashew production for export poses potential challenges particularly around food security
Governments need to think about global ways agricultural policies may affect the stability of the food system as a whole, beyond locally focused efforts to increase resilience in production.
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Research Associate, University of British Columbia
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Professor, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University
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Associate Professor of Geography and Assistant Vice-President, Graduate Studies, University of Guelph
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Sustainability and Fellow of Indo Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University
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Global Programs Lead, Seed Science Center, Iowa State University, Iowa State University
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Assistant Professor of Agricultural Communications, Iowa State University
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PhD Candidate, Geography, Environment & Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies/ History, University of Oxford
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Professor of Agricultural Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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enseignant chercheur en adaptation aux changements climatiques, Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour (UPPA)
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Assistant Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, Nanyang Technological University; Institute for Humane Studies