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Focusing on improving agricultural productivity is a vital first step in reducing
agriculture’s overall environmental and GHG impacts.
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Healthy Agricultural Systems in
Colombia optimize natural
ecosystems to restore vitality to
landscapes, making farming both
profitable and sustainable and
slowing deforestation. Photo
credit: Ganaderia Colombiana
Sostenible
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(Healthy Agricultural System
practices for dairy production yield
more milk per hectare, raise farmer
profit and conserve critical natural
habitat in Chiapas, Mexico. Photo
Credit: ©Legado Verde)
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(Felipe Schwening uses climate-smart
agriculture practices to grow soybeans in Brazil.
Credit: Cristiano Borges)
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The Argentine Association of No-Till
Farmers (AAPRESID) organizes
regional workshops and field events in
which more farmers can adopt
climate-smart conservation
agriculture systems for the crops they
grow. Photo credit: AAPRESID
Soybean looper larva. Photo credit: Iowa
State University, Department of
Entomology)
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The Rice Stewardship
Partnership delivers
conservation and greenhouse
gas mitigation practices that
improve farmer profitability
and meet global rice demand.
Credit: Mike Checkett
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See and Spray technology, developed by John Deere and Blue River Technology, uses
machine learning to identify weeds and spray chemicals only where needed.
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