USDA’s rule not only establishes what crops, but also what practices qualify for 45Z credit. The interim rule establishes guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

In fiscal year 2024, climate finance amounted to 62 percent of total lending in the agriculture and food sector, in the World Bank. World Bank food- and agriculture-oriented projects approved between ...

Trade disputes, high operating costs and low crop prices may force farmers to cut back on practices that help the environment ...

Advocates for reducing atmospheric carbon hope some initiatives would survive in a Trump administration. In 2021, the Biden administration put a new twist on an old program that pays farmers to keep ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture published an interim rule establishing guidelines for climate-smart crops used as biofuel feedstocks, as well as a Feedstock Carbon Intensity Calculator ...

African Development Bank, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ...

Producers who were awarded contracts with the Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture pilot program are expected to begin receiving at least a portion of payments within days, according to those ...

The farming landscape constantly evolves, presenting new challenges each year. Weather has a major impact on farming practices, particularly erratic weather conditions and the resulting crop stress.

The Weed Science Society of America, Westminster, Colorado, applauds its member-scientist and Texas A&M University Agronomy Professor Muthukumar Bagavathiannan, Ph.D., for a recent $10 million ...

The emphasis on monitoring, measurement and reporting that’s built into each of the projects in the five-year Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities initiative means that it will be well into the ...

To achieve sustainable rice production and food security in the region, farmers in six Asian countries have used nuclear derived climate-smart agricultural practices and significantly increased their ...