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- Iowa’s Climate-Change Wisdom (11/21/15)
- Agroecological Methods Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change (10/21/15)
- Global warming contributed to Syria's 2011 uprising, scientists claim (09/07/15)
- Failure to act on climate change means an even bigger refugee crisis (09/07/15)
- World food supply at growing risk from severe weather (08/19/15)
- Your Meat-Eating Habit Is Killing More Than Just Cows (08/17/15)
- Corn War (08/16/15)
- World’s largest vertical farm planned for Newark, New Jersey (08/16/15)
- Airborne Sensor Can Track Photosynthesis Efficiency (08/14/15)
- How the Midwest's Corn Farms Are Cooking the Planet (08/12/15)
- It’s Time to Rethink America’s Corn System (08/12/15)
- Meals Ready to Eat: Expedition 44 Crew Members Sample Leafy Greens Grown on Space Station (08/10/15)
- Kenyan Women Are Quietly Revolutionizing Farming.. And The Government's Noticing (08/04/15)
- Quest for climate-proof farms (07/21/15)
- California and Arizona Miscount Water Supplies, Avoiding Realities of Scarcity (07/21/15)
- Farmers eager for drones, but most can't legally fly them (07/05/15)
- Mark Bittman Wants You to Know the Drought Isn’t Your Fault (07/02/15)
- Congress Doesn't Think Agricultural Sustainability Has Anything to Do With Your Health (06/29/15)
- Rise in CO2 Could Restrict Growing Days for Crops (06/21/15)
- We'll All Eat Less Meat Soon—Like It or Not (06/14/15)
- Drought Is Bearing Fruit for Washington Wineries (06/02/15)
- Saving coffee from extinction (05/25/15)
- Warmer Climate Could Aid Quebec's Wine Industry (05/18/15)
- Farmers are watering your food with fracking chemicals (05/05/15)
- The Promise of Precision Agriculture in Drought-Ridden California (05/01/15)
- What If Everyone in the World Became a Vegetarian? (04/25/15)
- There's a Place That's Nearly Perfect for Growing Food. It's Not California. (04/20/15)
- Is There a Future With Enough Food — But Without Big Ag? (04/11/15)
- Big Beef Is In Big Trouble – What You Should Know (04/11/15)
- Water, Technology, and Western Hubris (04/08/15)
- As official data dries up, Zimbabwe's farmers gauge rainfall themselves - TRFN (03/17/15)
- California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,000 Years Ago (03/13/15)
- Why Vertical Farming Could Be On The Verge Of A Revolution -- And What's Keeping It Down (03/12/15)
- Climate Change in the 2015 World Wide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community (03/05/15)
- The monarch massacre: Nearly a billion butterflies have vanished (02/16/15)
- From regional nuclear war to global food crisis (02/02/15)
- Why Cow Farts and Belches Are Obama's Next Big Targets on Climate Change (01/21/15)
- Humans Cross Another Danger Line for the Planet Puts what our Cluster is trying to do in the larger context. (01/17/15)
- The Problem With Nuts "It takes a gallon of water to produce a single almond" (01/12/15)
- Beef Industry Having a Cow over Potential USDA Recommendations (01/11/15)
- Ten Ideas For How We Can Save the Planet, including eating less meat (01/11/15)
- How Monsanto's Big Data Push Hurts Small Farms (12/03/14)
- Eating less meat essential to curb climate change, says report (12/02/14)
- Urban Farmers Trade Goods and Stories at ‘Crop Swaps’ (11/28/14)
- United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming (11/26/14)
- Gates foundation spends bulk of agriculture grants in rich countries (11/21/14)
- How Climate Change Will End Wine As We Know It (11/21/14)
- A Sustainable Solution for the Corn Belt (11/20/14)
- Monsanto Is Using Big Data to Take Over the World (11/19/14)
- Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time (11/10/14)
- 'Go solar': Queensland farmer sends giant climate change message to G20 organisers (11/06/14)
- Agents of change (10/27/14) A report from recent Smithsonian symposium celebrating 50th anniversary of National Tropical Botanical Garden.
- Climate Change Is Kicking the Insurance Industry's Butt (10/27/14) Article doesn't mention agricultural insurance, but the same issues apply.
- Food giants Cargill and General Mills believe in climate change. Will they defend themselves from it? (10/26/14)
- Coca Cola, Heinz And Other Major Food Companies Warn Climate Change Threatens Business (09/19/14)
- How climate change is affecting the world’s biggest food company (09/05/14)
- California's 100-year drought (09/04/14)
- Bill Gates's epic project transforms farming in Africa (09/04/14)
- Activist fuels his bike tour with dumpster food to call attention to Food Waste Fiascos (09/02/14) Focusing on the consumption rather than production chain.
- Leaked IPCC draft report highlights risk of 'abrupt and irreversible change' as carbon emissions continue (08/28/14)
- How Global Warming Will Affect Your Beer (08/02/14)
- Robert Rubin: How ignoring climate change could sink the U.S. economy (07/24/14)
- “National Climate Change Viewer” enables focus on future climate-driven changes for U.S. watersheds at local levels (06/03/14)
- Food security model: Geospatial Agricultural Management and Crop Assessment Framework (06/03/14)
- Safeguarding the future of food security (05/14/14)
- A bigger rice bowl (5/10/14)
- How Climate Change Is Making America’s Favorite Crop More Vulnerable (5/05/14)
- Climate change 'already affecting food supply' – UN (3/30/14)
- FACT SHEET: The President’s Climate Data Initiative: Empowering America’s Communities to Prepare for the Effects of Climate Change (3/19/14)
- Climate Data Initiative Launches with Strong Public and Private Sector Commitments (3/19/14)
- Climate change and coffee et al. (3/6/14)
- President Obama’s New Budget Is Peppered With Efforts To Tackle Climate Change (3/5/14)
- Obama Announces Aid for Drought-Stricken California (2/14/14)
- Next Phase of Obama’s Executive Push: Climate Hubs (2/5/14)
- White House to announce "creation of seven regional 'climate hubs' to help farmers and rural communities respond to the risks of climate change, including drought, invasive pests, fires and floods."
- New Predictions of Climate Change’s Impact on Agriculture (12/17/13)
- Syria Today Is A Preview Of Veterans Day, 2030 (11/12/13)
- Will Climate Change Mean the End of Coffee? (11/07/13)
- Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies (11/02/13)
- Happy Cows Help Save the Planet: Climate Smart Agriculture in Costa Rica (10-23-13)
- Couple scaling issues:
- Related to what these farmers are doing on the ground and satellite resolution.
- Related to what works for these farmers and what might or might not work for larger farms.