In fiscal year 2024, climate finance amounted to 62 percent of total lending in the agriculture and food sector, in the World Bank. World Bank food- and agriculture-oriented projects approved between ...

Roughly 11 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — mostly nitrous oxide and methane — can be traced to the nation’s agricultural sector. A range of ‘climate-smart’ farming practices have the ...

Climate change and variability - marked by rising temperatures, altered precipitation, and increased extreme weather - have significant impacts on agriculture, especially in Ethiopia, where farming is ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. FRENCHMANS BAYOU, Ark. — Will ...

A woman picks vegetables from her garden as her daughter looks on in a village east of Maseru, Lesotho, on February 27, 2015. The following is a guest post by Caroline Andridge, research associate for ...

A new report issued by the Purdue Applied Research Institute's Digital Innovation in Agri-Food Systems Laboratory, the ...

Climate change and food and nutrition insecurity pose two of the greatest development challenges of our time. Yet a more sustainable food system can not only heal the planet, but ensure food security ...

The Department of Energy has announced a conditional $1.46 billion loan guarantee to Gevo for a large-scale corn starch-to-jet fuel facility. Biofuel and farming organizations across the country want ...

America’s farms don’t just run on corn and cattle. They also run on cash from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Every year, the USDA spends billions of dollars to keep farmers in business. It hands ...

To achieve sustainable rice production and food security in the region, farmers in six Asian countries have used nuclear derived climate-smart agricultural practices and significantly increased their ...

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