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This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation. Agriculture is one of the sectors of the economy that is contributing to climate change, and at the same time the sector is heavily impacted by climate change. Therefore agricultural adaptation is required. Focusing on three countries, this book provides a novel, comparative examination of how and to what extent the law promotes agriculture-focused adaptation in these countries. The role of the law in addressing issues such as water management strategies, soil conservation methods, and crop production methods is discussed. This book identifies gaps in the regulatory frameworks for agricultural adaptation and highlights the lack of adaptive capacity of African agriculture due to weak or non-existing legal frameworks. It discusses ways to remedy these gaps through specific on-farm adaptation strategies, legislative amendments to consolidate all relevant national climate change-related policies and laws with agricultural policies and laws that have relevant provisions on adaptation as medium-term solutions, and the development of a specific framework law for agriculture-focused adaptation, incorporating essential agricultural adaptation strategies, could perhaps be enacted as long-term solutions to the regulatory gaps. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of law, climate change, food and agriculture, sustainable development, and African studies.

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By 2050, a quarter of the world’s population will live in Africa. This important book is a must read for everyone committed to addressing the tremendous challenge of feeding the rapidly growing African population under climate change. Jonathan Verschuuren Professor of International and European Environmental Law - Tilburg Sustainability Centre and Tilburg Law School; Extraordinary professor North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; Marie Sklodowska-Curie Alumnus - Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney; Extraordinary professor Global Environmental Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Habib Sani Usman is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, American University of Nigeria, and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre of African Legal Studies, Bayreuth University, Germany. He has 20 years' experience as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He holds a doctorate degree (LLD) in International Aspects of Law, with specialisation in agricultural and climate change adaptation laws, from the North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

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