Nov 18, 2013
Small farmers need 'all the support they can get' for climate adaptation
Researchers and governments must give small farmers all the help they can to adapt to a changing climate and grow enough food for the world's rising population, experts tell our online debate
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Farmers certainly are adapting, stressed Sonja Vermeulen, head of research for the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), but "in the next few decades climate change will be taking all of us beyond previously experienced conditions, so we really do need partnerships to figure out the best options under very uncertain conditions".