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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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Three forest patrollers take a snapshot using a mobile phone for the Lawin forest and biodiversity protection system
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Editor's Pick: Climate Finance Blogs

The following blogs offer insight into how USAID and its partners are mobilizing climate finance and provide examples of equitable climate finance investments. 
  • Jamie Schoshinski
Alternative livelihoods such as beekeeping are essential to uplifting communities while protecting forests.
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Editor’s Pick: Climate Finance Resources

Mobilizing climate finance is one of the six targets in USAID’s Climate Strategy. For more information and tools related to climate finance, check out these resources. 
  • Jamie Schoshinski
A community member and her neighbors plant coconut tree saplings in Zambezia province, Mozambique
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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
Illegal maize cultivation inside the Menabe Antimena protected area.
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Environmental Justice and Advocacy to Save Madagascar’s Largest Dry Forest

Inside the protected area of Menabe Antimena is Madagascar's largest dry forest--45% of which has disappeared in only the last 10 years due to massive deforestation, fires, migration, illegal maize cultivation, corruption and unscrupulous private interests. Menabe Antimena is one of the many critical ecosystems that the USAID Hay Tao project is working to protect.
  • Mihary Randrianarivelo