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Building up the resilience of farming systems requires implementing short- and long-term climate adaptation strategies at different scales. At the farm level, sustainable cropping practices may ensure...

Climate change threatens global food and nutritional security through negative effects on crop growth and agricultural productivity. Many countries have adopted ambitious climate...

The primary purpose of this research is to examine the impact of climate change on maize production in Pakistan. This research studied the impact of climate change on maize production in Pakistan from 1990 to 2020...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), with funding received through WFP’s Innovation and Knowledge Accelerator (INKA), is piloting an index insurance product in Côte d'Ivoire...

Highlights: Focus on agriculture Four areas are highlighted to ensure productive and resilient ecosystems for subsistence farmers through the economically important cash crop ‑ cocoa...

For decades, global coffee consumption has grown, as tastes and offerings for consumers have increased around the world, and global demand for coffee will continue to grow in the years...

In the Central Highlands of Vietnam, coffee (Coffea canephora) and pepper (Peper nigrum) farmers have started transitioning from monoculture to mix cropping systems. To investigate this ongoing shift...

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensied the already critical situation of maize production in Kayonza, largely due to smallholder farmers' restricted access to vital extension services and training...

France suffered, in 2016, the most extreme wheat yield decline in recent history, with some districts losing 55\% yield. To attribute causes, we combined the largest...

At the onset of COVID-19, researchers quickly recognized the need for research on the consequences of the pandemic for agricultural and food systems, both in terms of immediate impacts on access to inputs and labor, disruptions...