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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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Women's Land Rights Champions Series: Corinne Hart

This series features Women’s Land Rights Champions within USAID to learn more about their work. We’re pleased to share this interview with Corinne Hart, USAID’s Senior Gender Advisor for Energy, Environment, and Climate.
  • LandLinks
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Climate Strategy Hub Highlights to Explore this Earth Week

When the Climate Strategy launched, Climatelinks built a hub as an easy way for climate and development professionals to find Climate Strategy resources. In this blog you will find a compilation of some of the most popular resources on the Climatelinks Climate Strategy hub.
  • Climatelinks
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Indigenous Women’s Insights – Stewarding the Earth

An estimated 45,000 people hoping to inform crucial discussions surrounding climate policy attended United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention’s 27th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP 27). Among these delegations was a group of Indigenous women leaders working to build capacities and train emerging Indigenous women leaders from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature
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Tailoring Inclusive Solutions to Climate Finance: The Role of Individual and Collective Inclusion

Climate finance can and should be more inclusive of marginalized and underserved groups, including women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, low-income people, and people in remote areas. To that end, we believe it is essential for private investors to distinguish between two types of inclusion when designing climate investments: Individual inclusion, which engages individual members of a marginalized group, and collective inclusion, which engages a marginalized group as a whole.
  • Manuel Bueno, Stephanie Landers Silva
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Leveraging the Power of Nature

Addressing climate change and conserving forests go hand-in-hand, but what does that look like in practice? This blog outlines six approaches for using the power of nature to address the climate crisis.
  • Neeha Mian
The fourth webinar in the USAID Climate Strategy Deep Dive webinar series took place in October 2022, and focused on local partnerships and USAID’s Climate Strategy.
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Locally Led Development and USAID’s Climate Strategy

In November 2021, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced a new commitment to make all the Agency’s work, including its work around climate change, more inclusive and reflective of the countries in which it operates. Partnering with local organizations, particularly those that represent groups whose voices have been under-represented in the past and whose lives are directly and substantially affected by climate change, is essential USAID’s efforts around climate change.
  • Christine Chumbler
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USAID’s Efforts to Close the Climate Funding Gap

As part of the global effort to increase climate finance flows, USAID's 2022-2030 Climate Strategy sets a target of mobilizing $150 billion in climate finance by 2030 from public and private sources. To meet these climate targets and incentivize investment, USAID is integrating climate finance throughout Agency programming and establishing key activities and mechanisms that engage the private sector.
  • Sashi Jayatileke, Tedi Rabold
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How USAID is Advancing the President’s PREPARE Climate Initiative

Droughts and floods, more intense storms, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels are devastating communities around the world, and disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable populations. In response to the severe and urgent global climate crisis, the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) supports developing countries and communities around the world in their efforts to adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change.
  • Tedi Rabold