African farmers are better equipped to combat climate change than we think, says Mamby Fofana, but there’s still one way they need our help: they need us not to ignore the problem.
Fofana is a USC board member and former director of the Seeds of Survival (SoS) program in West Africa. Along with Kenyan NGO leader Joshua Mukusya, and Malawi-based researcher Rachel Bezner-Kerr, Fofana was in Canada for a series of USC-supported events called Taking the Heat: African Farmers and Climate Change.
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