Climate Change Could Create Agricultural Winners And Losers In East Africa, New Study Warns
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 16:28
in Earth & Climate
As African leaders prepare to present an ambitious proposal to industrialized countries for coping with climate change in the part of the world that is most vulnerable to its impacts, a new study points to where and how some of this money should be spent. The study projects that climate change will have highly variable impacts on East Africa's vital maize and bean harvests over the next two to four decades.
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