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Four people till a field while a rainstorm builds in the background.
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Serving Governments’ Climate Data Needs

Farmers around the world increasingly rely on long-range weather forecasts when planning their crops. Traditional timing for planting is no longer as reliable as it used to be, and neither are the rains, thanks to shifts in climate patterns.
  • Christine Chumbler
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Less Risk, More Reward: Empowering Smallholder Coffee Farmers to Better Manage Risk

To help farmers better manage risk, Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation partnered with four organizations and private sector businesses — Farm Africa and Root Capital, Neumann Gruppe GmbH, and Oikocredit — to launch innovative risk management initiatives that enable smallholder coffee farmers to reap more rewards and face less risk as they cultivate this high-value crop.
  • Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation
Grace Michael, a farmer in Nigeria, farms climate resilient crops
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Editor’s Pick: Food Security

Climate change poses a threat to international efforts to ensure global food security.
  • Sophie Schrader
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
Group inspects tree seedlings, Upper Imenti Forest, Kenya
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Thinking in Tomorrow

“My interest in tree planting started when I was very young, when I used to go with my mum to plant trees in the forest, as part of the shamba system of plantation establishment [a Kenyan form of taungya],” recounts Zipporah Matumbi. 
  • CIFOR
Members of Mbazzi Farmers Group members carry out a monitoring visit in their newly allocated area planted with trees.
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Shaking the Tree

In the districts of Mpigi, Rakai and Masaka in central Uganda, once-forested landscapes have been degraded by farming and illegal logging.
  • CIFOR
A woman stands near young trees in a nursery, Cameroon.
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Women Gaining Ground Through Reforestation on the Cameroonian Coast

Along Cameroon’s equatorial coast, women are planting trees on degraded land, both in the humid terrestrial ecosystems, and the estuarine areas where mangroves grow. In some cases, they’re also gaining greater tenure security in the process.
  • CIFOR
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Strengthening Small-Scale Beekeeping in Tanzania

This assessment reviews options for USAID landscape partners to promote sustainable growth in Tanzania’s bee product industries. The report analyzes honey and beeswax value chains to identify constraints and opportunities to increase production, refine processing, streamline transportation and meet domestic and export market specifications and demand in ways that target conservation outcomes, and increased producer incomes. Recommendations focus on producer group institutional capacity, market information, financing, and market access.
  • USAID