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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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On the Job: An Informal Waste Collector in the Dominican Republic
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How a Circular Economy Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by One-Third

With a presence in 100 countries and more than 10,000 staff globally, USAID has a unique and timely opportunity to help reshape the renewable energy ecosystem and promote the adoption of a circular economy approach to renewable energy, plastics, and other sectors – helping to shift the balance of natural resource use for all our stuff from one of waste and disposability to one of sustainability while providing and creating new economic opportunities.
  • Gillian Caldwell
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Webinar Series Explains Climate Strategy Implementation for Missions, Implementing Partners

The USAID Climate Team, anticipating many questions from Missions and implementing partners, collaborated with Climatelinks to offer a series of three webinars introducing the strategy and offering examples of how some Missions—Mexico, the Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), and Morocco—are already implementing it.
  • Christine Chumbler
An image of the site of the $1.2 billion, 900 MW Upper Karnali Hydropower Project.
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Advanced Energy Solutions In Nepal

Over the last five years, the Government of Nepal has made large strides in modernizing its electricity sector.
  • Sri Sekar
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Can Libya Flip the Switch to Energy Conservation?

Libya has vast energy resources. With electricity prices heavily subsidized by the national government and people experiencing daily power outages, public awareness of the need to conserve energy is limited.
  • Valerie Gwinner
A photovoltaic solar array sits in the foreground with mountains and sea visible in the background.
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Private Sector Training Empowers Minigrid Proposals for Haiti

In March 2019, the Government of Haiti released an official request for proposals as part of a broader plan to support the development of minigrids. Minigrids generally involve small-scale electricity generation and can advance energy transitions in rural areas by enabling a power supply for communities lacking reliable electricity.
  • Alexis Powers, Sadie Cox