Cultivating climate adaptation: Report warns more than 400 million smallholder farmers vulnerable to climate hazards

Stuart Stone
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Cultivating climate adaptation: Report warns more than 400 million smallholder farmers vulnerable to climate hazards

Study identifies a crop of climate mitigation measures that could help hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers tackle drought, flooding, and extreme heat risks

Four-in-five of the world's 510 million smallholder famers are badly exposed to worsening climate hazards such as drought, flooding, and extreme heat, according to a new report from consultancy giant McKinsey...

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