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Reducing livestock emissions while increasing production efficiency is key in Africa and can be achieved through better livestock feeding practices and more efficient management techniques. 

• 04/23/2024
• Saskia Hendrickx

Did you miss the Climatelinks March newsletter? We’ve got you covered. Here's a recap of the March ‘Mitigation and Low-Emissions Agriculture’ theme.

• 04/18/2024
• Climatelinks

Analyses of USAID Feed the Future programs revealed substantial opportunities to reduce methane emissions while increasing incomes and food security.

• 04/16/2024
• Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, Alyxandra Ruzevich

The following blogs highlight some of the ways USAID is working at the intersection of climate and agriculture and food systems.

• 04/09/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

Q&A about livestock including the intersection between livestock and climate change.

• 03/28/2024
• Andrew Bisson, Leslie Brooks

USAID’s approach to Low Emissions Agriculture and Food Systems serves to substantially reduce GHG emissions compared to business-as-usual scenarios and/or emissions intensity.

• 03/20/2024
• Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, Alyxandra Ruzevich

The uptake of biodigesters is helping them reduce toxic air pollution and methane emissions, create better farm management practices for better productivity and output, and adapt to climate conditions.

• 03/19/2024
• Muhammad Nurul Amin Siddiquee

PERU-Hub is a dynamic research and innovation center that explores advanced technologies in climate resilience, crop diversification, and food production to improve the livelihoods of rural farmers in Peru.

• 03/12/2024
• Siena Fleischer, Marilyn Finney, Julie MacCartee

The following resources offer guidance on how USAID programs can limit emissions from the agriculture sector and implement other climate-smart agriculture practices. 

• 03/05/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

These resources can help agricultural development practitioners understand how their work intersects with climate change programming.

• 12/10/2023
• Alejandro Valencia, Michael Saltz

This blog features Climatelinks best videos of 2022.

• 12/14/2022
• Maggie Allegar

To explore whether certain agricultural interventions may be a win-win to simultaneously meet both climate and food security goals, USAID leveraged the ongoing Feed the Future Kenya Crops and Dairy Activity  to determine the impact of the project’s dairy value chain activities on methane emissions intensity in any geographic zone being assessed, as well as the impact of improved dairy practices on smallholder dairy productivity.

• 11/18/2022
• Judy Odongo, Tracy Mitchell

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.

• 11/16/2022
• Neeha Mian

Join this listening session on Monday, November 14th at 6:25–7:10 pm EET (11:25 am–12:10 pm EST). The session will seek input from COP27 attendees and the wider public on the preliminary findings of a study on systemic approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural, nutrition, and food systems.

• 11/07/2022
• Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)

This is the story of how USAID has supported IBIS Rice since 2009 to source and sell wildlife-friendly, low-carbon emission rice from the Northern Plains of Cambodia and the company’s multi-year journey from donor-subsidized commodity producer to commercial bank investee.

• 10/25/2022
• Richard Chen