Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture: Narratives and Knowledge Politics

by Stephen Whitfield

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138849332
• ISBN13: 9781138849334
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"