Assessments from the International Hub Region
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Climate Change and Agricultural Resilience in the Northern Triangle
A joint report by the USDA and CATIE examines the impact of climate change on agriculture and migration in Central America's Northern Triangle (NTCA). The analysis reveals the varying resilience…
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South Africa Committed to Climate Change Interventions in the Agricultural Sector
South Africa committed to climate change intervention in its agricultural sector by introducing the Agriculture, Food Systems and Food Security Flagship Program.
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Climate Change, Global Food Security, and U.S. Food System Assessment
The result of a three-year effort led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this study brought together over thirty experts at nineteen institutions in four countries. The authors drew on…
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Carbon Mapping on the Go
Precision agriculture combines cutting-edge technology with traditional farming methods to improve the productivity, efficiency, and viability of today’s agriculture. This approach is crucial to…
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Soybean Expansion in South America: Quantifying Historical Land-Use Change, Modeling Socioeconomic Drivers and Projecting Future Trajectories
Finding practical solutions to balance food production and environmental conservation is a grand challenge the world faces today. Extensive soybean expansion in South America, at the expense of…
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The Impact of Investment on Irrigated Rice, Dryland Agriculture and Afforestation in Senegal using SAR and Optical Time-Series Imagery in Data Fusion Approaches
The West African Sahel and Sudanian region is an epicenter of land cover change hotspots which have not been sufficiently documented, due to the inability of multi-temporal moderate resolution…
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Breeding drought-tolerant pearl millet using conventional and genomics approaches: Achievements and prospects
Reviewed and discoursed the advancements in conventional breeding, progress in genomic resources development and application, high-throughput phenotyping, and the strategic use of genetic resources…
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Strengthening Climate Change Collaboration in Ethiopia
In collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Forest Service works with Ethiopia government to provide climate change policy and technical support and promote…