Agriculture16
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In East Harlem, Community Gardens Provide More Than Food
A new study looks at how these green spaces impact gardeners and their communities.
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Bangladesh Gets a New Climate Academy
The academy will train a new generation of experts who can use climate services effectively to manage the risks and opportunities around food security in Bangladesh.
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Opening Up Sugar Contracts in Southeast Asia: An Interview with Golda Benjamin
A recent project by the Business & Human Rights Resource Center shows how OpenLandContracts.org can be used to strengthen advocacy around corporate accountability and good governance of natural resources.
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What’s Climate Doing to Guatemala’s Coffee?
Diego Pons discusses his recent work on exploring the relationships between several climatic variables and coffee productivity in a region of Guatemala.
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Q&A: Climate Information for Food Systems
Scientists at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society are studying how much climate plays a role in the global food supply, identifying food system vulnerabilities in specific areas, using new kinds of climate information in agricultural modeling, and more.
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Q&A: Using Farmers’ Perceptions as Data
Researchers at IRI have been developing index insurance, which would provide a safety net for farmers who experience devastating climate events such as droughts and floods that severely impact their crop yields.
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Lessening the Impacts of Climate Shocks to Agriculture
In this video, IRI’s Lisa Goddard discusses index insurance and forecast-based financing as tools to reduce climate impacts in vulnerable communities.
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After Ten Years of Index Insurance, What’s Next?
Insurance helps to increase the food system’s resiliency to climate shocks, and encourages farmers to make more productive and sustainable decisions.
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Researchers Say an 1800s Global Famine Could Happen Again
The Global Famine was one of the worst humanitarian disasters in history, killing as many people as World War II. A new analysis suggests it could happen again, only worse because of climate change.