Climate-resilient farming methods, particularly the Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) irrigation technique, are proving ...

The Department of Agriculture is spending $3.1 billion on 141 experimental projects that test the capacity of farmers to reduce carbon emissions from agriculture, which produces about 10 percent of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black Gulf Coast farmers like Iowa, Louisiana’s Hilery Gobert are growing crops using farming techniques that keep climate change and their local ecosystems in mind. Gobert and others are practicing ...

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 ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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.

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2024 - The World Bank Board of Directors today approved an additional $40 million in IDA* grants to the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR** Climate Research for Africa project (AICCRA ...