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Climate Change and the Smallholder Farmers
In 2021, after years of drought, Madagascar is experiencing what the United Nations calls the first famine caused entirely by climate change. This is tragic and a terrifying echo of the mass famines that humans so recently seem to be leaving behind. A key message is that not all farmers and not everybody on the planet is equal in their vulnerability to climate change. The smallholder farmers of which there are about 500 million in developing countries are the most vulnerable. Most smallholder farmers farm less than five acres, which is about the size of four football fields.
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