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Tools for Africa’s small-scale farmers to weather drought and floods

Right now, countries in the Horn of RAfrica are in the midst of a multi-season drought. There have also been years in which the rain has come with such force that floods have washed out the season’s labour, sometimes along with homes, as happened in Mozambique just two years ago.

Climate change is making these disasters more common, and it is particularly hard for rural families whose livelihoods depend on the food they grow. A 2015 study by the World Bank estimated that climate change over the next 20 years would increase the number of

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