Funding Options and Technologies to Increase Food Security – Climate Solutions Advancement Network (ClimateSAN)

Funding Options and Technologies to Increase Food Security

Due the ongoing global food crisis, there is growing range of funding options and technologies available to increase food security. In addition there are multiple collaborative initiatives to facilitate improved food security. Given below are lists of organizations and articles relating to increasing food security:

1) Given below is a list of organizations that are contributing to the more than $7B mobilized for food system climate action, which are listed in the List-of-signatories-of-the-food-systems-to-call-to-action:

2) Alliances and Organizations to Increase Food Security:

a) Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIMforClimate)

b) New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa (NAFSN)

c) Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

d) US Goverment Initiative: Feed the Future

3) Given below are some key articles about funding for food-related projects:

a) Agricultural-Dive: Food’s Climate Funding Tops $7 Billion During COP28, Dec 15, 2023

b) GatesFoundation.org: Gates Foundation Announces Partnership with United Arab Emirates to Accelerate Action on Climate and Strengthen Food Systems Through Investment in Agricultural Innovation

c) COP28-News: Cop28 Presidency Puts Food Systems Transformation on Global Climate Agenda As More Than 130 World Leaders Endorse Food And Agriculture Declaration, Dec. 1, 2023.

d) PremiumtTmesNG: We’ll cultivate 500,000 hectares of farmlands to boost food supply – Tinubu – The president said his government will cultivate 500,000 hectares of farmland across the country to boost food supply chain in Nigeria, January 1, 2024.

4) Given below are some complementary technologies that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and can produce more food:

a) Using bio-fertilizer to reduce nitrous oxide emissions (eg. Pivot Bio’s and Kula Bio’s technologies)

b) Utilizing biochar to sequester carbon in soil and increase crop yields.

c) Providing shade for cattle and sheep with solar panels (Agrivoltaics: Combining Solar Panels with Farming).

d) Feeding cattle with seaweed for cattle to reduce their methane emissions.

e) Growing Rice In Seawater. See below articles:

i) GoodNewsNetwork: Scientists Growing Rice With Seawater Could Feed ‘Entire Arab World’ By McKinley Corbley -Oct 20, 2018

ii) South China Morning Post: Another record for China’s seawater rice with doubled yield in 3 years, 14 Oct 2022

• Researchers are planning to have nearly 7 million hectares planted with the salt-tolerant rice in the next 8-10 years, enough to feed 80 million. The hybrid species can be grown in normally barren areas and is a boost to the country’s food security ambitions

f) Article: Israeli Company That Uses Fungus to Tackle the Climate and Soil Crises, Jun 21, 2024 – An Israeli company discovered a way to increase agricultural crop yields by means of fungus. And as an amazing, unforeseen bonus, the soil to which the fungus is added sequesters more greenhouse gases than the most advanced carbon-trapping systems on the planet

g) Combining Solar-Powered Irrigation with Free Digital Resources to Facilitate Food Production, Education and Entrepreneurship in Northern Ghana with Funding Through Blended Finance

i) AndrewMillison: 2 BILLION New Acres of Farmland, Jul 1, 2024 – Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Spain to film the epic work of Seawater Solutions, a European company that is pioneering a whole new form of agriculture: growing productive plants in saltwater. They estimate that using plants called perennial halophytes, they can turn 2 billion acres of salty wasteland into productive farmland.

j) MDPI: Biogas Production Potential from Livestock Manure in Pakistan, 15 June 2021

k) Biochar From Cow Manure Could Be Key To Sustainable Agriculture. Forbes., Amin Mirkouei. (2021)

l) Example manure dewatering equipment: Manure Separator for Dairy Farms by Trident TNZ. (Note: The dewatered manure made by this separator may be able to be converted into biochar by this biomass burner: RocketChar by High Plains Biochar.

m) How Farmers Can Make Money by Storing Carbon in Soil and Reducing Fertilizer Costs.

5) Selected articles about the global food crises:

a) PBS: UN chief warns climate chaos and food crises threaten global peace: ‘Empty bellies fuel unrest’, Feb 14, 2024
“Climate and conflict are two leading drivers of (our) global food crisis,” the secretary-general said. “Where wars rage, hunger reigns – whether due to displacement of people, destruction of agriculture, damage to infrastructure, or deliberate policies of denial.”
…. a longtime FAO warning: “There is no food security without peace, and no peace without food security.”
Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali: “Conflict is the primary driver of acute food insecurity in Africa, and the same can be said about Haiti,”

b) FAO-org: Advancing Water Action for Food and Climate Security, 09 Aug 2023
More than 3 billion people live in agricultural areas with severe water deficits or scarcity, with 1.2 billion living in severely water-constrained agricultural areas.

c) World Food Programme (WFP) webpage: A Global Food Crisis
Conflict, economic shocks, climate extremes and soaring fertilizer prices are combining to create a food crisis of unprecedented proportions. As many as 309 million people are facing chronic hunger in 71 countries. We have a choice: act now to save lives and invest in solutions that secure food security, stability and peace for all, or see people around the world facing rising hunger.

6) Some research articles about making biochar from dewatered manure:

a) High-Temperature Pyrolysis of Blended Animal Manures for Producing Renewable Energy and Value-Added Biochar, Kyoung S Ro, United States Department of Agriculture, September 2010, DOI:10.1021/ie101155m

b) The Potential for Biochar to Enhance Sustainability in the Dairy Industry Written by: Kathleen Draper, Ithaka Institute for Carbon Intelligence Shannan Sweet, Cornell University 2020

c) Biochar from Biosolids Pyrolysis: A Review, 2018 May 10.

d) Manure-Derived Biochars for Use as a Phosphorus Fertilizer in Cotton Production, The Journal of Cotton Science 21:259–264 (2017) 259 http://journal.cotton.org

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