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The interconnectedness of life on Earth has never been more apparent, and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is using this perspective to explore how climate-sensitive health threats that impact food security and human well-being can be better predicted to help save lives.

• 08/23/2023
• Hannah Button

Senegalese youth are repairing degraded mangrove forests. In the process, they are empowering fishing communities to safeguard their own livelihoods ─ and fight climate change.

• 06/20/2023
• Winrock International

USAID Responds to Drought Warnings in Eastern Horn of Africa

• 07/19/2022
• USAID Agrilinks, Hannah Button

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report illustrated that climate change already has a widespread impact, that those impacts are intensifying, and that we, as a global community, need to act quickly to avoid the most severe consequences.

• 07/14/2022
• Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)

Aware of artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential as an important tool in agricultural adaptation, USAID’s Feed the Future Bangladesh Digital Agriculture Activity (BDAA), as a part of DAI’s Digital Frontiers Project, recently supported the pilot of Plantix, a highly specialized and AI-driven smartphone application for farmers and extension workers in Bangladesh.

• 07/07/2022
• Agrilinks Team

Climate change is projected to have substantial and widespread impacts on food production, food security and the livelihoods of the poor in low-income countries.

• 06/14/2022
• Agrilinks, Avni Mishra, Els Lecoutere, Ranjitha Puskur, Jawoo Koo, Carlo Azzarri

This year’s theme, #TheHumanRace—a global challenge for climate action in solidarity with people who need it the most—brings the immediate human cost of the climate crisis into the spotlight.

• 06/09/2022
• USAID

POA has made significant strides in Guyana and Jamaica, providing climate-smart technical assistance to support sustainable livestock systems.

• 05/12/2022
• Agrilinks Team

Senegalese youth are repairing degraded mangrove forests. In the process, they are empowering fishing communities to safeguard their own livelihoods ─ and fight climate change.

• 04/13/2022
• Winrock International

FEWS NET is the global gold standard for food insecurity early warning.

• 03/31/2022
• Kiersten Johnson, James P. Verdin

After more than three years supporting Southeast Asian agribusiness, forestry and other land use companies to lower their greenhouse gas emissions, USAID Green Invest Asia found this sector often lacks trust to jointly address climate risks – and opportunities – even when they share suppliers.

• 10/14/2021
• Angela Hogg

With support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia program, the Hong-Kong based verifier, Carbon Care Asia, confirmed that Lionheart Farms has processes and controls in place to issue a green bond.

• 09/09/2021
• USAID

USAID’s work across numerous sectors helps countries achieve ambitious climate targets and aids in building the foundation for sustainable growth through natural climate solutions.

• 09/02/2021
• Climatelinks

There is an urgent need for crop varieties and technologies that help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change.

• 08/17/2021
• Agrilinks Team

In the dairy sector, low-emissions development (LED) often utilizes intensification practices that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase yield. However, LED focuses on technical practices and outcomes, seldom considering the subsequent impacts on women’s and men's social distribution of burdens and benefits.

• 08/04/2021
• Sadie Shelton