White House sets four climate-change workshops for ag

The administration will hold four workshops in the coming week with a focus on helping the farm sector prepare for climate change and build its resilience to the hotter weather and more intense storms that are forecast. Two of the workshops are set for today, says a fact sheet, “one with young and beginning farmers and another with food distributors, to spur the development of creative information-technology tools that can help farmers and those in the food supply chain to prepare for climate-change impacts.” Another is set for Friday, to work on preparedness for food emergencies.

In addition, the administration unveiled an expanded Web site, climate.data.gov, that hundreds of datasets, Web services and tools about the risks of climate change to food production, supply, nutrition, and security accessible to innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers. The new material includes datasets from climate models of potential future impacts as well as records of crop production and risks from storms, pests and drought.
For a White House fact sheet on the “food resilience” initiative, click here.

For a blog by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the initiative, click here.

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