TRF -Climate aid needed for 500 million small farmers-researchers | Energy & Oil | Reuters
ROME, Sept 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As world
leaders meet in New York for yet another climate change summit,
concerns over wild weather patterns disrupting food supplies are
increasingly finding
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Small-scale farmers need better access to crop insurance and weather information to boost resilience, said Bruce Campbell, an ecologist who leads the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
The CGIAR, a global agricultural research partnership, is one of the members of a new Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture, which involves hundreds of scientific, business and farming organisations, and aims to bring together expertise and money to scale up efforts to improve agricultural resilience to climate change.