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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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The CEADIR final report provides insights on the role of financial and economic analysis, planning, policy, and finance in clean energy, natural climate solutions, and climate adaptation.
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CEADIR Final Report Highlights

CEADIR’s final report contains summaries and links to seven years of assessments, analyses, tools, and training and technical assistance materials on planning, financing, and implementation of clean energy, sustainable landscapes (natural climate solutions), and climate adaptation.
  • Eric Hyman, Christine Chumbler
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Scaling Up Clean Energy, Sustainable Landscapes, and Climate Adaptation Financing

The amount of development assistance available for clean energy, sustainable landscapes, and climate adaptation investment is relatively small. Partner governments have multiple urgent and competing needs for public expenditures, recently exacerbated by the global pandemic and recession.
  • Dr. Eric Hyman
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Local Commercial Lending for Commercial and Industrial Solar PV in Rwanda

How can programs encourage and enable local commercial banks to lend to companies supplying solar home systems for off-grid customers? Power Africa supported the USAID-funded Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment, and Resilience (CEADIR) Activity’s training and technical assistance on this topic. In the process,
  • Power Africa
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Power Banks: How Commercial Bank Lending is Catalyzing Off-Grid Household Electrification in Rwanda

In many developing countries, the companies that build, supply, and sell clean energy solutions have difficulty obtaining bank loans or other financing to expand their businesses or reach new markets. This was the case in Rwanda until Power Africa, through USAID, at the demand from financial institutions and providers of solar PV solutions, took action to educate, connect, and support commercial lending programs for off-grid electricity.
  • Power Africa