07/05/2023 SOURCE: www.worldbank.org
How do we address climate change, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet? Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and no country is immune. On this episode of The Development Podcast, we hone in on voices across Africa about the experience of climate change and how it intersects with poverty, and we hear from the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Sustainable Development in Washington, DC. Tune in as we speak with Cathy Kamamu, a farmer from Kenya, Professor Denis Aheto, Director of Coastal Ecology at the World Bank-funded Africa Center of Excellence on Coastal Resilience, Roselyn Fosua Adjei, Director of Climate Change for the Ghana Forestry Commission, and Richard Damania, Chief Economist for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Listen now!
The Interlocking Challenges of Climate Change and Poverty | The Development Podcast
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07/05/2023 SOURCE: www.thenation.com
Heat waves are pushing agricultural workers across a wide swath of India to the edge of survival.
In India, It’s Getting Too Hot to Farm
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07/04/2023 SOURCE: international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu
The InfoPoint session aims to present the various components of the initiative and showcase some early results regarding the activities organized around the 3 cohorts of the programme.
InfoPoint conference: One Planet Fellowship Programme – Boosting Africa-Europe scientific collaboration on climate change and agriculture in Africa
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07/04/2023 SOURCE: www.nytimes.com
Legislators took a major step in making sure that American agriculture policy has a climate lens. But the next Farm Bill could derail it.
Opinion | America Has a Chance to Make Farming More Climate Friendly
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06/30/2023 SOURCE: www.nature.com
Nature Climate Change - The potential effect of globally expanding organic farming on cropland soil organic carbon stocks has been estimated using a modelling approach. The results reveal that...
Expansion of organic farming could reduce soil organic carbon stocks
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06/29/2023 SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com
The documents provide evidence of climate change's effect on hardwood trees in Ohio
What a 19th-Century Farmer’s Forgotten Notes Reveal About Growing Seasons
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06/27/2023 SOURCE: www.world-grain.com
Company committed to eliminate deforestation in 2022.
LDC makes strides in reducing environmental footprint
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06/27/2023 SOURCE: www.reuters.com
Plant-based foods, vertical farming, active packaging, robotics in agriculture, even remote farm control systems using satellites: the list of technologies that promise to feed the world as well as mitigate climate change is ever-growing.
From indoor farming to alternative proteins: the entrepreneurs looking to feed the world
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06/26/2023 SOURCE: www.canarymedia.com
The high-flying startup claims to have locked away more carbon than any other venture by turning plant waste into crude-like oil and injecting it underground.
Inside Charm Industrial’s multimillion-dollar bid to remove CO2 with…
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06/26/2023 SOURCE: www.just-style.com
The Better Cotton conference explored climate action, sustainable livelihoods, data & traceability, and regenerative agriculture.
Better Cotton conference discusses data, climate crisis, regenerative agriculture
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