Tea growers in Malawi and Kenya wanted site-specific climate information to help them manage and plan their farming practices to maximise yield and quality.
Companies’ net-zero pledges count on vast expanses of forest to hold carbon so they can continue emitting.
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Yes, trees and soils can absorb and store carbon, but the carbon doesn’t stay stored forever. That’s one of the problems with how net-zero plans for the climate are being designed.
Many of our planet’s ecosystems depend on the health of soil.
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An expert on organic agriculture argues that the US is missing an economic and environmental opportunity by not working to scale up organic production.
The focus of climate talks has been on how little time is left is for global action. But climate change has already made tobacco farming, potentially a route out of poverty, unviable for some.
Resolutions should include dialogues with all parties involved in the herders-farmers conflict.
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Farmer-herder conflict is taking its toll on productivity in northern Nigeria. Efforts to solve this problem must include all stakeholders and take into account their concerns.
Pothole wetlands play important roles in prairie ecosystems.
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More than 40 per cent of natural wetlands in the Canadian Prairies have been lost due to drainage, and the impacts associated with this are largely unmitigated.
Nationals’ concerns about the effects on regional Australia are legitimate, but greater forces in favour of a net-zero emissions target will likely push the policy over the line.
Threatened by insecurity, farmers in Nigeria’s farm belt are increasingly abandoning their land, leading to higher cost of food
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Nigeria’s post COVID-19 economic recovery plan has resulted in only marginal improvements in economic growth, manufacturing and foreign direct investment.
Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Constructions workers in warm climates are often exposed to dangerous heat.
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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University