Research & Data from the International Hub Region
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Innovation is Sprinting in AIM for Climate
An AIM for Climate Innovation Sprint is an increase in aggregate self-financed investment from non-government partners to achieve an expedited outcome in agricultural innovation for climate-smart…
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Fertilizing Smarter for the Future: Introducing Fertilize Right
Fertilize Right is a 4-year USDA project under the Global Fertilizer Challenge taking place in Brazil, Colombia, Pakistan, and Vietnam, that uses the 4Rs of nutrient management to improve fertilizer…
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Evaluating Environmental Impacts of International Development Programs
A collaborative project to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of international development program in Kenya.
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Fertilizer-Use Efficiency and Fertilizer Alternatives in Brazil
Increasing fertilizer-use efficiency and find alternatives to chemical fertilizer, both to reduce reliance on imported fertilizer and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from overuse of chemical…
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Solar-powered drip irrigation and soil health in Tanzania
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture established 8 model farms in mainland Tanzania and in Zanzibar to integrate climate smart agricultural technologies, particularly irrigation drip…
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Building Knowledge on climate variables for Ethiopian coffee producers
USDA aims to build knowledge around climate variables and various agronomy best practices as well as build the capacity of key support functions and institutions in Ethiopia.
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Seedlot Selection Tool
The Seedlot Selection Tool assists land managers in considering climate change while planning reforestation and restoration efforts.
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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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Feed Supplement for Dairy Cows Cuts Their Methane Emissions
The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions by about 25 percent in a recently published study.
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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…