Climate Change Farmers

'The Rambo Of Food Crops' Good Bet For Threatened Farmers

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 04.28.2012

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Calling cassava "the Rambo of food crops," scientists Monday said the long-neglected root becomes even more productive in hotter...

PHOTOS: How Do The World's Farmers Adapt To Climate Change?

Posted 12.19.2011

From CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security: Farmers and agriculture experts began COP17 pushing for negotiators t...

USDA's $60 Million Research

AP | By STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

MINNEAPOLIS -- The federal government is investing $60 million in three major studies on the effects of climate change on crops and forests to help en...