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Rice is a staple in the diets of billions, and further price increases would add to the inflationary pressures faced by consumers. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

Amidst insufficient rainfall, Thailand has called upon its farmers to decrease rice cultivation in order to conserve water

The collaboration offers an integrated measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) solution for farm-based Scope 3 emissions. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

Leading climate impact verifier, SustainCERT on 8 August, announced a partnership with agriculture resilience platform provider, Regrow Ag to offer an end-to-end Scope 3 (value chain) GHG emissions measurement, reporting and verification solution for agricultural supply chains

Farmers and cotton stakeholders in Bangladesh will use novel cotton mapping data products derived from Sentinel-2 images. (Image source: CottonConnect)

CottonConnect and Assimila, supported by the European Space Agency’s EO Science for Society Programme, have set up Combat Against Climate Change on Cotton Communities, known as C5, a feasibility study exploring how climate advice could help farmer decision-making at key stages in the cotton production cycle

UMD researchers are seeking to breed the genes of einkorn wheat into bread wheat to improve resilience. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

In an attempt to protect the worlds food supply from the devastating impact of climate change, an international team of researchers led by University of Maryland (UMD) scientists, has successfully sequenced the complete genome of the worlds first domesticated crop, einkorn wheat 

ICRISAT and BARI have developed several new varieties of groundnut during the last 20 years. (Image source: ICRISAT)

Following successful testing in Bangladesh, the new groundnut variety BARI Chinabadam-12 (ICGV 07219), developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), has been approved for commercial cultivation in Bangladesh

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