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Question 5 • Literacy and Comprehension B (WHS)

Read the following text and summarize the main idea about agriculture in Africa. Use sequencing to organize your thoughts.Analysis of the impacts of climate change suggests that agro-ecological systems are the most vulnerable sectors. Agriculture in low latitude developing countries is expected to be especially vulnerable because climates of many of these countries are already too hot. Further warming is consequently expected to reduce crop productivity adversely. These effects are exacerbated by the fact that agriculture and agro-ecological systems are especially prominent in the economies of African countries and the systems tend to be less capital and technology intensive. Predictions of impacts across regions consequently suggest large changes in the agricultural systems of low latitude (mostly, developing) countries.

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First, climate change is expected to hurt agriculture in low-latitude developing countries because these areas are already very hot. Next, further warming will likely reduce crop productivity. Finally, because many African countries depend heavily on agriculture and have less capital and technology, their agricultural systems are especially vulnerable to major changes.

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