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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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Editor’s Pick: Gender and Social Inclusion Resources

USAID has developed dozens of resources to aid climate and development practitioners in their work at the intersections of climate, gender, and social inclusion. Climatelinks is proud to host a variety of these resources, from technical reports and analyses to fact sheets. This blog compiles some recently added gender and social inclusion resources.
  • Ariel Schindler
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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
Trees in a forest
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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
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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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USAID and Fund for Non-Conventional Energy and Energy Efficiency Partner to Increase Equitable Climate Finance in Colombia

Through the Scaling Up Renewable Energy program (SURE), USAID assisted the Fund for Non-Conventional Energy and Energy Efficiency (FENOGE) to promote gender equality and female empowerment in the Colombian energy sector. Their new Gender and Diversity Policy systematically integrates diversity, inclusion, and gender equality principles and aims to promote female participation in the energy sector, reduce female poverty in the energy sector, and reduce gender-based violence.
  • Scarlett Piantini Gil
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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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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