Agriculture for The Future: Recent Episodes

Jenna Woodall

Written and recorded in Spring 2021 for my climate change communications class, this five-episde podcast seeks to answer two key questions: (1) how are we handling agriculture in the face of our current climate emergency?, and (2) how do these strategies that we’re using improve our food security throughout the world?

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  • Mwanundu, S., & Firmian, I. (2015). Climate-resilient Agriculture Development. ifad.org. https://www.ifad.org/documents/38714170/40264252/climate_sun.pdf/15655fe0-d06f-434e-b4ea-df9017c93ef2.
  • Stuart, Diana. (2017). Climate Change and Ideological Transformation in United States Agriculture. Sociologia Ruralis. 58. 10.1111/soru.12175.
  • A Closer Look at the 2018 Farm Bill: Working Lands Conservation Programs. National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. (2019, July 24). https://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/a-closer-look-at-the-2018-farm-bill-working-lands-conservation-programs/.
  • Conservation Reserve Program. (n.d.). https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-programs/conservation-reserve-program/index.
  • Willingham, Z. (2021, January 21). Promoting Climate-Resilient Agricultural and Rural Credit. Center for American Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2021/01/14/494574/promoting-climate-resilient-agricultural-rural-credit/.

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  • USDA, Climate change, global food security and the U.S. food system (2015). Council on Foreign Relations.
  • How climate change threatens food security (and why we're all at risk). Concern Worldwide. (2019). https://www.concernusa.org/story/climate-change-food-security/#:~:text=Climate%20change%20affects%20food%20production,the%20nutritional%20value%20of%20crops.

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Sources for this episode:

  • USDA, Climate change, global food security and the U.S. food system (2015).
  • Council on Foreign Relations. (n.d.). Rising Hunger: Facing a Food-Insecure World. Council on Foreign Relations. https://www.cfr.org/article/rising-hunger-facing-food-insecure-world#:~:text=Global%20food%20insecurity%20has%20surged,and%20spur%20further%20mass%20migration.&text=In%202019%2C%20an%20estimated%20135,the%20UN%20food%20assistance%20agency.

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  • Adaptive Capacity and Climate Resilience. SARE. https://www.sare.org/publications/climate-risk-management-and-resilience-on-farms-and-ranches/understanding-climate-risk/adaptive-capacity-and-climate-resilience/. Srinivasarao, C. (2021).
  • Climate resilient agriculture systems: The way ahead. Down To Earth. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/agriculture/climate-resilient-agriculture-systems-the-way-ahead-75385#:~:text=Climate%2Dresilient%20agriculture%20(CRA)%20is%20an%20approach%20that%20includes,farm%20incomes%20under%20climate%20variabilities.
  • Ngumbi, E. (2019). Becoming Drought Resilient: Why African Farmers Must Consider Drought Tolerant Crops. Reliefweb. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/becoming-drought-resilient-why-african-farmers-must-consider-drought-tolerant-crops#:~:text=Importantly%2C%20there%20are%20benefits%20of,periods%20when%20the%20rains%20fail.
  • Charles White. (2017) Penn State Extension. https://extension.psu.edu/managing-soil-health-concepts-and-practices.
  • Climate-Resilient Farms. NRDC. (2021, February 2). https://www.nrdc.org/issues/climate-resilient-farms#priority-experts-resources.

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Sources for this episode:

  1. Amadeo, K. (2019). How the U.S. Agriculture Industry Works. The Balance. https://www.thebalance.com/us-agriculture-stats-facts-history-4776144.
  2. August 7, 1997. (1997, August 7). U.S. could feed 800 million people with grain that livestock eat, Cornell ecologist advises animal scientists. Cornell Chronicle. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat.
  3. Lengnick, L. (2020, September 30). Adaptive Capacity and Climate Resilience. SARE. https://www.sare.org/publications/climate-risk-management-and-resilience-on-farms-and-ranches/understanding-climate-risk/adaptive-capacity-and-climate-resilience/.
  4. Srinivasarao, C. (2021). Climate resilient agriculture systems: The way ahead. Down To Earth. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/agriculture/climate-resilient-agriculture-systems-the-way-ahead-75385#:~:text=Climate%2Dresilient%20agriculture%20(CRA)%20is%20an%20approach%20that%20includes,farm%20incomes%20under%20climate%20variabilities.
  5. USDA, Climate change, global food security and the U.S. food system (2015).