By: Jess Morgan
The IPCC's (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) fifth assessment report is drawing to a close and with it concern is mounting for small scale agriculture and the family farming communities who depend on it.
The forthcoming synthesis report is expected to put a strong emphasis on the people most affected by climate change such as smallholder farmers who toil on marginal or rain fed lands. The WGs have previously addressed the position of such people:
"The IPCC report shows climate change as a reality that's not going to go away for poor small farmers in developing countries; they are often the hardest hit with the least capacity to adapt," says Elwyn Grainger Jones, Director of Environment and Climate Change at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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