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 ...

What would it mean to climate change to remove 12 million gas-powered passenger vehicles from the roads of the U.S.? Katina Hanson, acting senior advisor for climate smart commodities at the U.S.

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

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 ...

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

The United Nations held a Climate Summit during the fourth week of September 2014 in preparation for more intensive work at the Lima Climate Change Conference this December and the 21st session of the ...

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.

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 ...

Our country set an alarming record in 2020: Americans endured 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. Even more terrifying: America is set to surpass that record this year! But even ...

Groups hope the Biden administration’s guidelines will be used for a clean fuels tax credit, but it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will do so. Biofuel industry groups urged the Trump ...

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 ...