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 ...

Our agricultural system must transition to farming systems and technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve resilience to the impacts of climate change – all while maintaining ...

Advocates for reducing atmospheric carbon hope some initiatives would survive in a Trump administration. In 2021, the Biden administration put a new twist on an old program that pays farmers to keep ...

The farming landscape constantly evolves, presenting new challenges each year. Weather has a major impact on farming practices, particularly erratic weather conditions and the resulting crop stress.

In 2023, the United Nations climate conference (COP28) officially recognized the importance of agriculture in influencing and mitigating climate change. In a Policy Forum, Johan Swinnen and colleagues ...

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 ...

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — An $80 million grant is headed to Virginia Tech in support of a new program encouraging farmers to use climate-smart practices. Alongside the Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart ...

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Climate change is both a scourge and an opportunity for the agricultural sector. Shifting growing seasons, prolonged heat waves, and long-term droughts punctuated by extreme flooding events are ...

In the wake of January’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires, and as federal action on climate change has slowed to a standstill, Californians recognize that our state must lead on climate solutions.