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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

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

In December, Climatelinks featured recaps of what happened at COP28 and also highlighted popular blogs and resources published in 2023.

• 01/18/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

The international community reached a number of important milestones at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP28).

• 12/18/2023
• Courtland Matthews, Carollyne Hutter

Did you miss the Climatelinks November newsletter? Here's a recap of the 'Road to COP28' theme.

• 12/12/2023
• 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

Deforestation threatens biodiversity and has negative health and economic impacts on communities. Nearly half of Mexico is covered by forests, which host 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Making Mexico a critical net carbon sink for the world.

• 01/12/2023
• Tedi Rabold

The Climatelinks photo gallery is currently home to over 600 images from 71 countries. Check out Climatelinks’ five most popular photos from 2022.

• 12/14/2022
• Krystelle Thomas

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

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