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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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Community members in the Momaya community in Sierra Leone build embankments with wood and discarded oyster shells to protect their property from the coastal flooding.
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Editor’s Pick: Resources for Resilience

Strengthening and transforming systems to enhance climate resilience is crucial for vulnerable communities. Explore USAID efforts in the context of coastal communities, the power sector, urban planning, and more. 
  • Sophie Schrader
GGF Technical Team conducts the first pilot test of aguaje fruit harvesting within GGF's certified forest concessions (FM/CoC - FSC)
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COP27 Round-up Blog: Week One

Throughout the first week of the 27th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP27) gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh, Climatelinks featured blogs related to the themes of each day, along with ways that USAID is working advance its climate goals. Here’s a recap of the week-one blogs.
  • Ariel Schindler
Unmasking Malawi's Deforestation Crisis
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COP27 Round-up Blog: Week Two

Throughout the second week of the 27th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP27), Climatelinks featured blogs related themes, such as such as gender, energy, and climate resilience and the ways that USAID is working to advance its climate goals. Here’s a recap of the week-two blogs.
  • Ariel Schindler
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Climatelinks November 2021 Newsletter Recap

During November, we highlighted USAID’s work leading up to and during COP26, as well as updates regarding the new USAID draft Climate Strategy. Gillian Caldwell, the Agency’s Climate Change Coordinator, produced a blog on confronting the climate crisis, released alongside the draft Climate Strategy. Additional blogs highlighted how USAID and other development partners can support national adaptation plans and the need for immediate climate action in the Caribbean.
  • Sophie Schrader
South Asia Group for Energy (SAGE)
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Interlaboratory Consortium Broadens Technical Support Opportunities for South Asia

After many years of partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) national laboratories on various energy sector studies and programs, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID's) mission in India realized an opportunity to coalesce these initiatives into an interlaboratory consortium.
  • Isabel McCan
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Climatelinks October 2021 Newsletter Recap

In September and October, we highlighted work focused on climate finance. We posted the first two parts of a blog series highlighting a new wave of private investment for climate solutions, answering the call to climate action and climate finance in action.
  • Sophie Schrader
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How 5 Young African Leaders Are Addressing Climate Change

The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis. Climate change is not just a looming existential threat, it is currently threatening development progress and exacerbating global inequities; increasing humanitarian needs, food and water insecurity, and displacement; and contributing to conflict.
  • USAID
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Can Libya Flip the Switch to Energy Conservation?

Libya has vast energy resources. With electricity prices heavily subsidized by the national government and people experiencing daily power outages, public awareness of the need to conserve energy is limited.
  • Valerie Gwinner
Stella Sigana with charcoal briquettes.
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Alternative Energy Solution: Reaping Fruits from Innovative Charcoal Briquettes

My passion for entrepreneurship started when I was pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Clothing Textiles at Egerton University. I started a shop to sell soft furnishing for fabrics such as bed covers, curtains, baby sets etc. This business however did not go as smooth as I had earlier imagined.
  • Stella Sigana
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Editor’s Pick: Private Sector Engagement Tools and Resources on Climatelinks

Empowering the private sector to drive economic growth can be a powerful force for strengthening communities and accelerating self-reliance. Private Sector Engagement (PSE) is a strategic approach to international development through which USAID consults, strategizes, aligns, and collaborates with the private sector for greater scale, sustainability, and effectiveness of development or humanitarian outcomes.
  • Isabela Barriga, Eric Hyman