Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture: Narratives and knowledge politics - Pathways to Sustainability - Stephen Whitfield - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138849327 - September 4, 2015
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Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture: Narratives and knowledge politics - Pathways to Sustainability 1st edition

Stephen Whitfield

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Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture: Narratives and knowledge politics - Pathways to Sustainability 1st edition

Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations. Furthermore, uncertainty emerges in local contexts, not just in response to climatic systems, but to social, economic, and political systems, and often with implications for the appropriateness and adoption of technologies or the success of alternative cropping systems.

This book examines the challenges of adaptation in smallholder farming in Africa, analysing the social, economic, political and climatic uncertainties that impact on agriculture in the region and the range of solutions proposed. Drawing on case studies of genetically modified crops, conservation agriculture, and other 'climate smart' solutions in eastern and southern Africa, the book identifies how uncertainties are framed 'from above' as well experienced 'from below', by farmers themselves. It provides a compelling insight into why ideas about adaptation emerge, from whom, and with what implications.

This book offers a unique perspective and will be highly relevant to students of climate change adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation, as well as policy-makers and field practitioners in international development and agronomy.


210 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 7 black & white halftones, 1 blac

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released Storbritannien, September 4, 2015
ISBN13 9781138849327
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 190
Dimensions 156 × 234 × 15 mm   ·   430 g
Language English