EnvironmentEnvironment MEC Ewan Botha warned that El Niño could worsen water shortages and crop losses for small and dryland farmers, while an insurer proposed subsidised premiums for small-scale growers.
AgribusinessA Lumina Intelligence survey finds 42.8% of food industry decision-makers see water scarcity as the biggest climate threat, yet only 9.6% measure water savings, a gap that could open a market for water-measuring agtech.
AgrotechClimateCrop, built on a Weizmann Institute discovery, uses gene editing to disable a protein that brakes starch production in leaves, which it says lifts daily starch storage by 10 to 15 percent and helps crops grow and recover from stress.
VegetablesWith 300,000 farmers in its supply chains facing drought, extreme weather and higher costs, PepsiCo is bringing growers together from 35 countries to share what works, its global agriculture procurement chief told AgNavigator.
Under a Bangladesh-Maldives Green Initiative, Mianz College School of Agriculture will test how guava, neem, flame tree and other Bangladeshi species adapt to Maldivian soil and climate.
The private-sector-backed programme, running since 1980, grows fruit, timber and medicinal seedlings in 19 nurseries, follows a 70:30 species mix that favours native and medicinal trees, and has set up 119 medicinal plant gardens.
Geospatial AI firm AlphaGeo ranked 72 major cities on their capacity to absorb climate hazards; Chicago tops the list, while Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Multan lead the bottom ten, where South Asian cities face heavy flood and monsoon risk with little preparation.
At a seminar on shaping agriculture and agribusiness education for climate resilience, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Rafiqul Islam Sarder called for technology to be built into research, while coordinator Prof Dr Mohammad Jahangir Alam set out innovation clusters at five universities, curriculum modern
After his worst winter-wheat harvest since 2017, Bryce Black is weighing perennial grains whose deep roots reach water, hold soil and store carbon; Kernza, domesticated by The Land Institute since 2001, covered just 3,511 acres in the US last year and yields 20-40% of wheat, but cuts fertiliser, fue
