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2013 World Food Prize Panel Event: Five Farmers from Four Continents: “Impacts and Opportunities of Global Climate Change”

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Global: On 16th October, 2013, Farming First co-hosted a farmer roundtable event at the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. (Read our commentary from the event and interview with the farmers here.) The event featured five farmers from around the world (Africa, Europe, South Asia and South America), who shared their thoughts on the on-farm […]

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Case Study: Climate

Providing Solutions to Climate Change in Madagascar

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Africa & Middle East: Madagascar is a country rich in biodiversity, but deforestation, land degradation and the effects of climate change are ravaging the nation’s natural resources. It is estimated that 20% of the island is already affected by desertification. Eighty-five percent of the Malagasy population practice subsistence farming. More than eighty percent of the population survives on less […]

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