The following is a guest post by Caroline Andridge, research associate for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations. Controversial President Robert Mugabe isn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Explore sustainable agriculture: a farming approach prioritizing environmental health, food security, and social equity.

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.

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 ...

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 ...