Even as farmers shift toward less water-intensive crops, climate change is pushing agricultural water consumption upward in Central Asia. A new study by IAMO researchers shows that rising temperatures ...

A McGill University study suggests that diversifying crops and replacing annual wheat with a perennial grain could help ...

Europe has lost roughly a quarter of its bird population since 1980, and the sharpest losses have hit species that depend on farmland. A continent-wide analysis spanning 28 countries, more than 20,000 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 23, 2025) A study published in European Journal of Agronomy, based on a 16-year, long-term experiment (LTE), finds that organic crops (cotton production with wheat and ...

Climate change is threatening modern life in ways we are still finding, from food security to the economy to everyday living. It has been labeled a “threat multiplier” for its potential to complicate ...

Adaptation refers to efforts to reduce the risks of climate variability and change and make a system more resilient. Adapting agriculture to climate change can better prepare farmers and producers for ...

India feeds 1.4 billion people. But the very systems built to do that, including chemical-heavy, water-intensive, monoculture farming, are now buckling under the weight of a changing climate.

In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative model, though on a smaller scale, to modern farming systems. Research has shown that some ...

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (CBSUA) have spearheaded climate-smart rice farming training for agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) to ...

Climate change poses multifaceted challenges to cocoa cultivation, including rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns and increased pest and disease pressure. Cocoa trees thrive within a ...

Across sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is magnifying an older vulnerability. The women who grow food, hold families together and keep small farms running are often the same people with the least ...