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A new report by the 100 Million Farmers initiative, Breakthrough Models for Financing a Sustainable Transition, outlines how to support and work alongside farmers, with a specific focus on speeding up the adoption of regenerative agriculture pathways. The model suggests de-risking transitions by aggregating capital from public and private sources to overcome initial financing costs, thus contributing to the key question of how we unlock resilience across the complexities of the food systems.

We asked three farming leaders to share their thoughts on their greatest worries and most hopeful solutions.

Read complete post: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/farming-leaders-scale-up-adoption-sustainable-agriculture/

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Is the Future of Farming Soilless?
The global population is predicted to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. To feed everyone, it is estimated that global food production will need to increase by up to 70 percent in the next 30 years.

Meanwhile, rapid urbanization is reducing the availability of agricultural land, and climate change is expected to make the land that’s left less suitable for staple crops like wheat, rice, corn and oats.

What’s more, food systems produce around a third of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities and account for 70 percent of the world’s freshwater withdrawals. Traditional agriculture also contributes to deforestation, soil erosion and over-reliance on pesticides around the world.

So, how do we help feed more people?

Read complete post 👉https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2024/future-farming-hydroponics/792051

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This paper presents new estimates of the effects of dry episodes (rainfall shocks) and droughts on gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth rates using state-of-theart empirical methods. Rainfall and water availability exhibit considerable spatial variability that is almost two times greater than that of temperature. Hence, the analysis needs to be conducted at a high degree of spatial disaggregation to capture the effects of rainfall variations on economic indicators of interest.

Read complete post 👉 https://reliefweb.int/report/world/droughts-and-deficits-summary-evidence-global-impact-economic-growth

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Financing Climate-adaptive, Water-resilient Food Systems.

➡️ A white paper from the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the NDC Partnership shows options on how mitigation and adaptation ambition can be raised and access to finance for implementation can be realized.

➡️ The key actions are benefit-sharing, building for bankability, investment bundling, and blending.

➡️ The investment pathways include providing transition finance for regenerative and water-efficient agriculture, landscape-based finance, patient finance for multi-use water infrastructure capital, and natural capital finance.

📌Read the full article here: https://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/financing-climate-adaptive-water-resilient-food-systems/

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