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Adapting to climate uncertainty in African agriculture : narratives and knowledge politics / Stephen Whitfield.

By: Whitfield, Stephen, 1985-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: xix, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138849327 (hardback); 1138849324 (hardback); 9781138849334 (pbk.); 1138849332 (pbk.).Subject(s): Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Africa | Crops and climate -- Africa | Agricultural ecology -- Africa | Sustainable agriculture -- Africa | Climatic changes -- Africa | Farms, Small -- AfricaDDC classification: 338.1/4096
Contents:
Narratives of change in African agriculture -- Constructing uncertainty 'from above' : knowledge and narratives of climate change adaptation -- Constructing uncertainty from below : Continual adaptation in Kenyan smallholder farming -- Breeding for an uncertain future : the case of 'drought tolerant' and 'water efficient' maize for Africa -- Ciritcal perspectives on conservation agriculture in Zambia and Malawi -- What is climate 'smartness'? : a review of case studies of 'climate-smart agriculture' -- Governing adaptation in Africa's agricultural future.
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