Editor's Note
Obituary
5 Bryan Mappledoram
News
6 Agriculture must adopt climate-smart practices to better help poverty reduction
8 How plants respond to drought provides insights into climate change survival
10 Managing water is key to adapting African agriculture to climate change
13 Coming of age: Robots in farms
14 Conservation efforts must include small animals. After all, they run the world
16 A new approach to understanding subspecies can boost conservation
18 How dung beetles are duped into rolling and burying seeds
20 Nitrogen pollution
22 How farmers in Africa are finding ways to sustainably use wetlands
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Grassroots
April 2017
Vol. 17, No. 1