Agriculture

To deepen understanding of climate litigation against private sector actors, Catherine Higham and Honor Kerry analyse climate cases filed in 2021 against companies in different sectors and consider what the future holds. Read more

This report [in French] is the result of research conducted in the semi-arid Kaolack region of Senegal, as part of the Women Entrepreneurs in Climate Change Adaptation (WECCA) project. Read more

This report, for the Stockholm Environment Institute, provides a first systematic, quantitative assessment of transboundary climate risks to trade in major agricultural commodities – maize, rice, wheat, soy, sugar cane, and coffee. Read more

Christian Siderius and Declan Conway highlight some of the barriers and opportunities to achieving more sustainable water use in the ‘breadbasket’ of India, at a time of unrest among many farmers faced with new laws they perceive threaten their livelihoods. Read more

The authors of this paper introduce a novel method to compare the costs of water conservation measures with the added value that reallocation of water savings might generate if used for expansion of irrigation. Read more

Bob Ward explains the background to false and debunked claims about the amount of greenhouse gases from the consumption of meat that are being promoted by self-styled ‘lukewarmer’ Viscount Ridley. Read more

Crop switching and relocation of crop production to different states could prevent up to half of predicted losses in agricultural... Read more

A key strategy for agriculture to adapt to climate change is by switching crops and relocating crop production. We develop... Read more

This paper studies the relationship between generalised trust in other members in society, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers, asking whether trust mitigates or increases the impact of climate change on migration. Read more