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Editor's Pick: Mitigation Low-Emissions Agriculture Blogs

The following blogs highlight some of the ways USAID is working at the intersection of climate and agriculture and food systems.
  • Jamie Schoshinski
Picture in April 2023, shows a rice farm in Majin Gari, Lavun Local Government Area of Niger State (Long: 6.113753, Lat: 9.07204), Nigeria, by Salihu Idris (in the plot), was fertilized solely with biochar and compost, and no synthetic fertilizers, yielded 4.5 tons/ha, without any release of carbon emissions from the farming activity. The farmer, Salisu, is one of the participants of the USAID Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Activity implemented by Winrock International.

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Shoal of juvenile fish swimming near mangrove roots.
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Building a Food-Secure, Climate-Resilience Future

Senegalese youth are repairing degraded mangrove forests. In the process, they are empowering fishing communities to safeguard their own livelihoods ─ and fight climate change.
  • Winrock International
A group of female farmers sit facing a male facilitator with a paper map in between the two groups.
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A Farmer-led Approach to Shrinking the Climate Information Gap

In a crowded banquet hall in Niamey, a dozen people gather around a large piece of paper, chatting excitedly in Hausa and French. They are a diverse group - farmers from hours outside the capital, radio broadcasters, extension agents, meteorologists, government officials and a smattering of NGO workers.
  • Kristin Lambert, Amanda Lewis, Mary Allen
Satellite image of cow paths in a field
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Finding the Ephemeral: Satellite Data Guide Pastoralists to Water

The Ferlo region of north-central Senegal is a vast expanse of dry savannah covering over a third of the country’s total area. With only a few small, scattered settlements, this region is almost exclusively reserved for pastoralism, both by tradition and government policy.
  • Agrilinks Team
Women of Bassoul gather to organize for mangrove monitoring.
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Regaining Their Lost Paradise

Since the 1970s, the Sahel region of northern Africa has been experiencing ongoing drought. The ecological, economic and social impacts are far-reaching, and coastal and estuarine ecosystems have
not been spared.
  • CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry