A new synthesis report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says putting nature at the heart of decision-making is key to achieving transformative change when it comes to securing humanity’s future.
Satellite-based insurance is emerging as a new tool to help merginalised farmers get back on feet following damaging floods or droughts. The technology remotely monitors conditions on the ground, and provides information to verify claims.
Collaborative research by Worldfish, IWMI, IRRI and FISH concludes that diversity of agroecological approaches to rice and fish production can lead to improved food security and climate resilience.
Land degradation is one of the biggest and expanding threat to smallholder farmers in the drylands across the globe. In Chad researchers, government and development are working together to find solutions with the help of spatial soil data visualization.
When climate disasters strike, farmers are among the first to feel the consequences. Now, index-based flood insurance (IBFI) could help the most vulnerable defend and recover faster.
The world’s wetlands could generate sustainable, agricultural livelihoods, which in turn contribute to public health through the ability to afford basic needs including nutritious food, medical care and education, writes Program Director Izabella Koziell
Faster, cheaper and more precise than conventional testing, soil spectroscopy analysis gives giving agricultural producers at all scales vital information on how to improve and protect their soils.
