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Sierra Leone's farmers in 'life and death' battle with climate shifts study
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Changing weather patterns as a result of climate change are making life much harder for farmers in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, a country already battling with poverty, a recent study says. With 70 percent of people depending on farming for a living, erratic rainfall leading to decreasing yields is forcing many to find other ways of making money, sometimes creating additional problems, according to the study's authors. "This is about life and death, so there is need for them to come up with something...
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