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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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Energy as an Anchor of USAID’s New Climate Strategy

USAID has developed a new Climate Strategy that will guide our hu­mani­ta­ri­an and development work through 2030 in a way that is truly different – by calling on all corners of USAID to play a part in our whole-of-agency response.
  • Alex Lane
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Doing Our Part

The climate crisis is here, and President Biden has called for all-hands-on-deck in response.
  • Colleen Allen
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Top 5 Resources of 2021

In 2021, the Climatelinks community submitted over 160 resources on topics ranging from climate resilience in WASH and agriculture to environment and energy trends in Latin America and the Caribbean. Other notable documents included the 2020 Amazon Vision Report, an updated SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit, and more than 30 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Annexes on climate change. 
  • Stephan Hardeman
Seeing is Believing
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Top 5 Blogs of 2021

Over the course of 2021, the Climatelinks community contributed over 140 blogs on topics from youth climate action to a new wave of private investment for climate solutions.
  • Sophie Schrader
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How Can Climate Action Be Inclusive?

A growing demand to address the threats of climate change and social inequality has led to the emergence of inclusive climate action.
  • Wendy Jaglom, Logan Pfeiffer