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
Agriculture
Addressing climate-related health issues among Bangladeshi cotton farmers
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 perform genome sequencing on world's first domesticated crop
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 launch new groundnut variety in Bangladesh
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
China pledges million dollar grant for agriculture sector in Nepal
China has pledged a US$1.17mn grant to provide assistance for Nepals agriculture sector