Rural survival in the face of out-migration Seydou Ouedraogo was one of the last young people left in Ramongo. Like many other villages in the Sahel, Ramongo in Burkina Faso has lost most of its youthful population to towns and cities. Recurring droughts and dramatic decline in rainfall have destroyed many farming systems, contributing in
Poor farmers are most vulnerable to climate change “We used to harvest hundreds of maize sacks, but due to rain scarcity we plant much and end up harvesting almost nothing,” says Dickson Mnyukwa from Chibelela village in Tanzania’s Dodoma district. He supports a family of eight on crops watered only by what falls from the
