Thursday, November 14, 2013

Africa - Helping small farmers adapt to climate change could pay for itself – Report

Irrigated farming in Tanzania. PHOTO/Peter Arnold, Inc./Ron Giling

Helping smallholder farmers adapt to changing climate conditions and lower their risks will be crucial to ensuring food security in the future – and could pay for itself, argues a new report looking at the cost-effectiveness of adaptation.

Putting a financial value on the benefits of adaptation – from more weather-resilient rural roads that help farmers get crops to market, to new ways of making a living – is

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