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Nature 446, 716-717 (12 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446716a; Published online 11 April 2007

Climate Change 2007: How to survive a warming world

Jim Giles1

  1. Jim Giles is a senior reporter with Nature.
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African communities have been adapting to climate change for millennia. Jim Giles reports on the strategies that seem most effective.

Four decades ago, drought arrived in El Fasher, an impoverished state capital in western Sudan. Rural communities there had relied on weak rains to raise crops in sandy soils.