At Eastern Iowa’s Amana Farms, some 2,500 Angus cattle stand at a rail waiting for breakfast. A truck drives slowly down the line, dumping a mix of hay, corn and distillers grains into the troughs.

Climate change threatens global food security and sustainable development, while many agricultural subsidies exacerbate environmental impact and agriculture’s carbon footprint around the world.

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-smart agriculture is gaining momentum—and for good reason. These practices have sustainable benefits from an environmental perspective, but it’s becoming more evident that they also offer ...

A proposal under Assembly Bill 2954 would set a goal for sequestering carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in natural and working lands—a sector spanning 90% of the California landscape. It ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate ...

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 ...

About 20% of global emissions come from agriculture and land use. Yet agriculture can also be a vehicle for taking carbon out of the atmosphere. The Oregon Global Warming Commission has developed a ...

Atlanta-based company Ponix Farms is quietly making sustainable strides in the system, changing how food is produced and distributed. Ponix, a technology company focused on agriculture in Atlanta, ...

Farming has always involved risk. Risk of pestilence, water shortages or excess, and weather events are only a few of the conditions affecting successful crop growth. Applied nutrients and crop ...

The US Department of Agriculture is funding a controversial $1 billion program that will test and verify the benefits of climate-friendly agricultural practices. Announced Feb. 7, the USDA’s ...