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Climate Change at Ground Zero / Issa Martin Bikienga, an agricultural economist, Project Syndicate, 26/09/2014http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/issa-m--bikienga-describes-how-sustainable-practices-are-transforming-agriculture-in-burkina-fasoBurkina Faso is located in the heart of the Sahel, which means that it is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries when it comes to climate change. Its farmers may know little of the physical causes of global warming, but they know about its effects – not least the huge variability in rainfall patterns, from droughts to flooding, which lead to lost harvests, the erosion of pastureland, and food crises...