Sep 29, 2014
Calling on Half a Billion Farmers to Join the "Climate-Smart" Revolution | Huffington Post
Scientists are concerned that climate stresses are likely to cause massive losses in tropical fisheries and threaten livestock that sustain the world's poorest people....
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Data compiled by the UN and research institutes known as CGIAR indicate that by 2030 there will be about one billion people producing food -- most of them working on small plots, keeping animals on marginal lands, or fishing with simple vessels. To survive these many challenges, the ambitious goal is to help at least half of them -- 500 million -- use the tools and techniques of climate-smart agriculture.
The problem is that agricultural technologies and innovations are notoriously slow in reaching farmers, particularly poor farmers. But we've analyzed the data, and it shows we can break this pattern.