Smallholders' coping mechanisms with wheat rust epidemics: Lessons from Ethiopia.

Crops are variously susceptible to biotic stresses-something expected to increase under climate change. In the case of staple crops, this potentially undermines household and national food security. We examine recent wheat rust epidemics and smallholders' coping mechanisms in Ethiopia as a case...

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Main Authors: Moti Jaleta, Dave Hodson, Bekele Abeyo, Chilot Yirga, Olaf Erenstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219327