How agriculture’s resilience to climate change benefits us all, Growing Returns, Environmental Defense Fund, 2015

Building agricultural resilience to climate change benefits everyone by supporting rural communities that provide essential services like food security, flood protection, and biodiversity. Green infrastructure projects, such as restoring wetlands, planting buffers, and managing grasslands, help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve water quality, and strengthen landscape resilience to extreme weather. New carbon market protocols reward farmers and ranchers for practices like compost application and methane reduction on rice fields, creating new income streams while encouraging sustainability. Momentum is growing as more farmers adopt climate-smart practices, but progress still relies on better coordination of financial, policy, and social incentives across government programs and markets.