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Author Munyaradzi, Christopher

Title Water and Soil in Holy Matrimony? : a Smallholder Farmer_s Innovative Agricultural Practices for Adapting to Climate in Rural Zimbabwe
Published Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of acronyms; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Full of sound and fury? The climate change discourse; "Post-truth age": The new normal?; Adaptation: The buzzword for today; The innovation concept; Barriers and enablers to a food secure pathway; Conclusion; Chapter 2 -- Thou shalt not only survive but thrive, if ... : Hurudza and mediator; Introduction; "Days are numbered"; The hurudza concept; The making of a latter-day hurudza; Advent of war: Arrests, torture and immobility
Picking up the pieces: A time of "extraordinary catharsis"Awards: A canary in a coal mine; Building adaptive capacity; Conclusion; Chapter 3 -- 'New tricks': Managing rainfall variability; Introduction; Disintermediation: The Phiri Maseko ecology; Mixed farming; Innovation and experimentation: What is the story?; Conclusion; Chapter 4 -- Rhyming with an audience; Introduction; "Adaptation by ribbon cutting?" NGO interventions in Zvishavane; The "pro-truthers?" Adopters, adopters' adopters, adapters and "Josephses of Arimathea"; Barriers and enablers to climate adaptation
Key issues at stake in the discourse of adaptation to climateConclusion; Conclusion -- Good news makers stand and be counted; Introduction; Reflections; Conclusion -- Why are they still 'there'?; Appendix 1 -- A tribute to the late Mr Phiri Maseko*. For whom the bell tolls; List of references; Glossary; Back cover
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Subject Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- Zimbabwe
Crops and climate -- Zimbabwe
climate change.
Climatic changes
Crops and climate
Zimbabwe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789956764051
9956764051