Livestock may do better than crops, African farmers told

The stresses of climate-induced crop failures could be avoided if more small farmers in Africa also raised livestock, say researchers.

Climate change will result in a 10–20 per cent drop in yield for crops such as beans, maize and millet in Africa’s drylands by 2050, researchers from the Kenya-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the United Kingdom’s Waen Associates found.