Climate Change

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Climate change and agriculture are tied directly to social equity and development. Agriculture is both a cause and solution to global warming. Climate change creates new challenges to food production and the people who produce it.

Kenya’s challenge: How best to manage its new-found water wealth?

How Kenya manages its new-found water wealth will have major impacts on the region's food security, as well as potentially long-term environmental impacts.

U.S. insurance industry needs to step up on climate change

The stakes are only rising as U.S. insurers drag their feet in responding to climate change.

Farm Bill ignores climate change—mostly

As the Farm Bill debate goes to the Senate floor, two amendments are trying to bring greater recognition of climate change to farm policy debate.

When weather becomes the "single biggest factor"

Sixty-eight percent of corporate food and agriculture industry executives said that weather extremes will be the “single biggest factor affecting North American food and agribusiness in 2013" in a recent poll.