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2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: Makida Mohammed is a farmer near Assela in Ethiopia's Oromia region, where grains such as wheat, barley and tef dominate the landscape. Wheat is Mohammed's main cash crop. In Ethiopia, wheat production by smallholder farmers such as Mohammed accounts for more than 70 per cent of domestic production. [1] The cash Mohammed makes from selling wheat goes to feed, clothe and educate her five children. I met Mohammed through my work with the Cornell Alliance for Science, an organisation based at Cornell...

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