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Episode November 15, 2017

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Under the Paris Agreement, countries were asked to present their own climate action plans, and 90 percent of these action plans — technically called NDCs, for “nationally-determined contributions” — incorporated farming fixes — or shiftint to sustainable agriculture. That led to a major breakthrough this week at year-end climate talks here in Bonn, Germany, where our guest is Tonya Rawe, who runs the Food and Nutrition Security program at CARE International.

CARE is a humanitarian aid organization formed in the wake of World War II, but it’s become a key player in the environmental space as well, especially when subsistence farmers are involved.