So What if Climate is Changing! How does this Affect Farming?

Often we take agriculture for granted. Except for the poorer, developing countries, we just assume that markets will have whatever food we are accustomed to buying.

But, what if climate is beginning to change! What if the "traditional" drylands that produce most of the world's agriculture are beginning to experience variations in the amounts and occurrence of rainfall. What kind of adaptation would be required to continue to produce the foods we are most accustomed to buying?

The following article: Burkina Faso / Farmers Act on Climate Change, can be found on the Desertification Blog to the right or on the UN website for IRIN.

Burkina Faso - not a major player in global economics, and positioned right in the heart of the West African Sahel - is experiencing such changes in the quantities of rainfall and timing of the growing season. Can this poor, developing country adapt to the coming changes? Can there be lessons for others who may be next in line for changes?