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The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Promoting the Resilience of Smallholder Agriculture to Climate Change in Africa

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2017-04

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Winter, Simon, Maaike Bijker, and Melissa Carson. “The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Promoting the Resilience of Smallholder Agriculture to Climate Change in Africa.” Corporate Responsibility Initiative Report No. 71. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 2017.

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Efficiency gains alone, by reducing food loss, increasing productivity and optimizing markets, have the potential to feed many of the additional two billion people expected worldwide between now and 2050. One billion of those will be in Africa, and feeding them properly will contribute significantly to poverty reduction and food security.' The food price crisis of 2007-08 powerfully illustrated the vulnerability of the global food and agricultural systems? It raised major concerns about the future stability of food supply, quality and safety, and price volatility. It highlighted how smallholder producers are key to both their own and regional food security.

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