Water is essential for life on our planet, yet it’s a resource that is becoming increasingly scarce. With growing populations, climate change, and unsustainable usage patterns, communities around the ...

Farmers in Illinois and all across the country are increasingly confronting the challenge of climate change by implementing “climate-smart” conservation practices, like cover cropping, reduced tillage ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Conservation Innovation Fund, a conservation and sustainability impact finance firm, announced the launch of the second round of farm enrollment for its Climate-Smart ...

The time is now for Congress to finalize a new farm bill that strengthens important risk management tools for producers, makes a historic investment in climate-smart conservation, and revitalizes ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in April announced the termination of its $3 billion “climate smart” program, a grantmaking initiative that was supporting hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation. However, climate change is threatening their effectiveness in safeguarding ...

According to Invest in Our Land, their crop art installation at the 2024 Ag Progress Days “encourages farmers, young and old, to align one’s lifestyle and advocacy with environmental stewardship, and ...

In 2023, USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities turned on the spigot to fund 141 projects, totaling $3 billion. Understanding the projects — each run by a different organization with its ...

Every five years, farmers and agricultural lobbyists descend on Capitol Hill to debate the farm bill, a massive food and agriculture funding bill that helps families afford groceries, pays out farmers ...

Since 1985, The Conservation Fund has protected about 28 acres an hour—nearly 700 acres a day. That is about one Central Park worth of land protected each day! Your support helps make this possible ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. — North Dakota and Minnesota farmers and ranchers may be eligible to participate in a national pilot program that will pay farmers and ranchers $100 an acre or an animal unit to ...