Overcoming the barriers: how to ensure future food production under climate change in southern Africa

This report reflects on the fact that climate change is likely to reduce yields and increase food prices, with serious effects on both farmers and consumers. It further asserts that whereas large-scale farmers have access to the resources needed to adapt, small-scale farmers face major obstacles. These obstacles may not only prevent adaptation but also lead farmers into maladaptation, for want of other choices. Hence, it is argued that major new resources must be raised from domestic, regional and international levels to focus on and build the adaptive capacity of small-scale farmers and sustain levels of food production into the future.