Farmers can help slow climate change by mixing native grasses into croplands, restoring wetlands and raising perennial crops. These strategies also conserve soil and water and build new markets.
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Agricultural mechanisation can be accompanied with appropriate policies that help to harness its potentials while minimising potential negative effects.
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Escalating clashes between herders and farmers in Nigeria threaten the country’s national and food security. A response based on innovation, sustainability and political will is urgently needed.
Sub-Saharan Africa has seen widespread economic growth since 1995. But increased agricultural productivity is needed to translate that growth into poverty reduction.
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Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR
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Senior Science Engagement Officer, University of Cape Town
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Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions – Project Manager, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Development Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management; Co-director of the Bioeconomy Institute; Director C-CHANGE, Iowa State University
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FSNet-Africa Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pretoria
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Associate professor, University of Gothenburg
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town