This edited book is focused on Sustainable Development Goal 2. It offers a comprehensive and topical collection of practices, technologies and innovations in the field of sustainable food production and security under a changing climate. It is a one-stop handbook for farmers, researchers, extensionists, policy makers and other stakeholders seeking to identify and disseminate best fit technologies for local and regional landscapes. It offers an understanding of the challenges, risks and uncertainties as well as opportunities to foster productive and sustainable food production. Smallholder farming and agriculture in general is facing a serious threat from climate change that has resulted in erratic and unpredictable rainfall and increased temperatures, among other abiotic stresses. These climate change induced pressures have reduced productivity mainly among the smallholder farmers, who are critical in driving the attainment of sustainable development goals like SDG 2, 12 and 13. The objective of the book is to document effective and practicable practices and technologies that can be adopted by smallholder African farmers as mitigation measures against the effects of climate change. This book is of interest to researchers, agricultural scientists, climate change scientists, capacity builders and policymakers.

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Morris FANADZO is a cropping systems agronomist with over 20 years experience in research and teaching at university level. He holds a PhD in Crop Science and is currently an Associate Professor of Agronomy at Cape Peninsula University in South Africa where he is also coordinating one of the programmes in the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Nothando DUNJANA is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Soil Science and has over eight years of agronomic systems research as well as university teaching experience amassed as a university lecturer and an assistant researcher at a non-governmental research organisation. Hupenyu Allan MUPAMBWA holds a PhD in Soil Science. His PhD research focused on vermicomposting as a waste beneficiation technology important in driving organic soil fertility. Currently, he leads the Desert and Coastal Agriculture Research Programme at the University of Namibia. Dr Ernest Dube is an agronomist (PhD) with over 20 years experience in agricultural plant production and research. He is an internationally renowned expert of conservation agriculture and champion of sustainable plant production. As Senior Lecturer in Plant Production and Management at the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, he is highly committed to excellence in teaching, agronomy research and scholarship.