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Climate change has and will continue to cause changes in weather and climate across the world. For many parts of the developing world, these changes are life or death - changes in rainfall, heat, and climate variability can mean crops failing, and more of the population going without food.

Enter the Fatick region of Senegal. Within one of the least developed countries in the world, 58% of the region live in poverty on less than two dollars a day. Crops, such as millet, cassava, and maize, are grown almost entirely with the help of rainfall. A good year or a bad year for rain has a direct correlation with how much there is to eat. But even with these circumstances, a new study out of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona shows that local and indigenous knowledge of crops and climate can make a huge difference in how much there is to eat.