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Farmers Notice Increase in Severe Weather Events
2015-12-03 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - As the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) today hosts its ‘Farmers’ Day’, a new survey from the National Farmers Union has highlighted the damage that severe weather events have inflicted upon the agriculture industry over the past decade.
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India Holds Up Farmers Plight from Extreme Weather for COP21 Delegates
2015-12-02 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "If you look at the submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs, the national commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030) by over 150 countries, most have announced mitigation-centric targets, whereas climate change is also about adaptation. India is among the few that has given a comprehensive INDC," Ashok Lavasa, a key official of India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and part of its COP21 team at Paris, told IPS. A new report by Delhi-based non-profit...
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Farmers and Ranchers Have Been Dealing with Climate Change for Decades
2015-12-01 18:32:24| National Farmers Union
By Roger Johnson, president, National Farmers Union The Earths climate is changing temperatures are rising, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, and precipitation patterns are shifting dramatically. While some in Washington like to spend their time debating the notion of climate change, there is little debate about the subject in rural America. And
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NFU: U.S. Must Take Steps to Mitigate Climate Change, Provide Robust Risk Management Tools for Family Farmers and Ranchers
2015-12-01 15:58:09| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (December 1, 2015) National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson urged Congress and international leaders to take meaningful steps to mitigate climate change and pledge themselves to provide adequate risk management tools for Americas family farmers and ranchers, who are charged with
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Thousands of British Farmers to Receive BPS Payments on 1st Dec
2015-12-01 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - The Government's Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has announced that around 30,000 farmers are set to receive their 2015 Basic Payment Scheme payments on Tuesday 1 December.
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