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Guyana pushes for rice resilience
Guyana’s minister of agriculture has revealed national adaptation strategies to ensure the country’s rice production is not brought down by climate change, AlertNet reports. Developing new rice...
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New Indonesian rice armed to combat climate change
The government of Indonesia has released ten new varieties of rice which carry traits to reduce the impact of climate change on food production, reports The Jakarta Post. Rice is Indonesia’s most...
View ArticleClimate-smart coffee in (more or less) two minutes
Meet Henk. He’s not just smart, he’s climate-smart. Plus, he knows a thing or two about coffee, and how farmers in Latin America and East Africa can protect their coffee crops from the expected impacts...
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Climate change: a blessing in disguise for India’s apple farmers?
If you’d like a glimpse of what successful climate change adaptation looks like, this short photofilm is a good place to start. Click here to view the video on YouTube. In the 1950s, apple production...
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Two Degrees Up climate change films published by Reuters AlertNet
The Two Degrees Up series of short films about the possible impact of climate change on smallholder agriculture has recently been published by Reuters AlertNet. The films, originally produced to...
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Minding the gaps: scientists hail major advance in adapting food crops to...
Global efforts to adapt staple foods like rice, wheat and potato to climate change have been given a major boost as new research reveals the details and whereabouts of their “wild relatives” – their...
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Guaranteeing food security in times of (climate) change
Latin America and the Caribbean is known for its incredible diversity of people, plants, animals, and ecosystems , but despite a collective reputation for contrast and extremes, all countries in the...
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Arabica’s magic skin
Like the mysterious magic skin in the 19th century novel by French author Balzac, the area suitable for growing Arabica coffee in Mesoamerica is shrinking away as temperatures rise and rainfall...
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Tracing Vietnam’s climate scars
Tea fields in northern Vietnam where researchers scoped potential sites to establish climate-smart villages Vietnam’s rugged northern terrain is characterized by sloping hills giving way to lush paddy...
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The key to climate-friendly coffee production
The production of Arabica coffee has been particularly hard hit by climate change impacts and so have the many smallholder farmers in Latin America who directly depend on revenues from coffee to...
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