Climate change threatens global food security and sustainable development, while many agricultural subsidies exacerbate environmental impact and agriculture’s carbon footprint around the world.
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 Biden administration has targeted soil management practices, the largest source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, as a major part of their plan to cut those emissions in half by 2030.
Soil and water – two crucial resources for practically all agricultural food production – have been deteriorating in the past decades due to unsustainable human activity and climate change. With ...
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 ...
The study examined two different long-term agricultural studies, including this one at the LTER Main Cropping Systems Experiment in Michigan. A study using multiple agronomic models to examine two ...
Agriculture, forestry and land use account for about a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. The world’s food systems will have to become much more productive by 2050 to feed a ...
Researcher see the interconnections between the systems in nature and how each component impacts the others. In Connecticut, rich in forests and farmland, experts see the potential that could position ...
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. A number of small Black-owned farms ...
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 ...
Every five years, farmers and agricultural lobbyists descend on Capitol Hill to debate the farm bill, a massive food and agriculture funding bill that helps families afford groceries, pays out farmers ...