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• 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:

1. Related to what these farmers are doing on the ground and satellite resolution.
2. Related to what works for these farmers and what might or might not work for larger farms.