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In a bid to proffer solutions to the effects of climate change impacting food security in Nigeria, no fewer than 5,119 Rice farmers in Nasarawa State have adopted several climate-smart technologies ...
By Milliam MurigiThe International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has joined a groundbreaking international effort to cut livestock methane emissions through natural breeding strategies.The $27.4 ...
The new requirement says at least 65% of grant funds must go directly to producers. In U of I’s proposal, over 50% of funding ...
A University of Idaho grant to help Idaho farmers develop climate-smart practices has been terminated.  The $59 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart ...
President Trump had already frozen payments under the program, through which $3.3 billion had been committed to help farmers increase climate-conscious practices.
In other news Wednesday, State Board members approve a possible name change for Lewis-Clark State College. And board members ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture canceled the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program on Monday, effectively ...
Many of these programs offered incentive payments to farmers who adopt an environmentally sustainable or “climate-smart” ...
University of Iowa professor Silvia Secchi had some problems with the $3 billion USDA program, but abandoning partially ...
Katie Woodrow, agriculture project manager for the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, has spent the last two years recruiting around 40 farmers to adopt sustainable farming practices like […] ...
A program North Carolina farmers rely on is over. The U.S. Department of Agriculture canceled the Partnerships for ...
The agency said it would review existing projects based on new criteria and continue to fund those that qualify under a new ...