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Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the goal of bringing Africa its own Green Revolution in agricultural productivity.

The European Unions climate change advisory boards recent recommendations on carbon removals are relevant for the blocs agriculture sector. They stress the importance of restoring carbon storage in agricultural land, but also leave the door open to carbon markets despite their well-documented risks.

This blog overviews our February 2018 "Our Energy Future: Ideas to Action" event in Morris, MN.

Kyodo World Service | December 30, 1999 | By: Rieko Saito

TOKYO - Many people in the Waseda district of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward are joining a campaign called the "My Tofu" project, organized by shopkeepers promising to provide fresh bean curd every week made exclusively from organically grown soybeans.

The annual global climate talks are underway this week in Warsaw, Poland. The agenda for the 19th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 19) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as the climate talks are formally called, includes discussions on issues relating to agriculture with climate change adaptation identified, appropriately, as a primary focus.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Tuesday asked the European Union (EU) not to backtrack on its emissions reduction commitments because of the current financial crisis.

The WWF launched the appeal through its Brussels-based European Policy Office on the eve of an EU summit, at which the leaders will discuss a climate change package.

When Russia announced it would not renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative on July 17, anger and disappointment mixed with a sense of resignation. The news was hardly unexpected.