The World Bank announced that it will provide support to Latin America to be able to face the situation with climate change, through adaptation strategies.

The Latin American and Caribbean region generates 8 % of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, despite this, the World Bank assures that if early measures are not taken, this percentage could rise.

Climate change is already causing economic damage in the region by increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. And it threatens to drag between 2.4 million and 5.8 million people in this part of the world into extreme poverty by 2030, the report says.

Crops are one of the main affected by this phenomenon, which in itself creates a negative impact on food security. The World Bank gave Argentina as an example, where droughts could lead to soybean yield losses of up to 50 % by 2050.

The World Bank proposes to establish long-term strategies, based on its Climate Action Plan 2021-2025, which has set itself the objective of allocating an average of 35 % of loans to financing climate issues for five years.

K. Tovar

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Celso Fantinel, president of the Confederation of Associations of Agricultural Producers of Venezuela (Fedeagro), warned that vegetable production could be in danger and go through a negative period as a result of the heavy rains that are being recorded throughout the national territory.

According to Fantinel, the transfer of cargo vehicles to the producing towns has been hampered by the torrential downpours that have caused the collapse of the roads.

“We are in a negative phase for vegetables, where much less is produced due to diseases and excessive rains.”

The representative of the business organization stressed that the rains are very useful in the production of other items such as corn, rice, sugar cane, and coffee, which are items that require abundant water for their development.

The shortage of diesel is another of the critical points in the entire process of planting, harvesting and transferring agricultural production throughout the national territory. From Fedeagro they warn that the fulfillment of the goals for this year is in danger.

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Harmonizing the activities inherent to the field and the production of energy will soon become a reality in Scicli, Sicilylia, as was confirmed by the guests of the media tour that was organized to spread the perfect integration between both production ecosystems.

Falck Renewables will build the agrovoltaic park with a power of 9.7 MW and a production of 20 GW of renewable energy in the Sicilian town of Scicli, noted for its vegetable crops in solar greenhouses. According to those responsible, the park will produce enough energy to supply electricity to some 5,000 families, avoiding the emission into the atmosphere of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide.

The agrovoltaic park will be carried out on land that has not been cultivated in the last twenty years, but now it is intended to demonstrate how activities related to the environment, energy production, agricultural activities and work are fully compatible.

The agricultural project includes the cultivation of vegetables, almonds, fruits in the open field and will be executed under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the University of Catania, based on studies on the “compatibility of crops with the climate , the terrain and the structures of the power plant.”

According to Paolo Guarnaccia, professor at the Faculty of Agriculture of Catania, for the selection of crops “we focus on autochthonous fruits and vegetables; that is, of proven adaptability to the area” and 5 hectares of the 22 that it contemplates will be used the agrovoltaico park.

While the mayor of Scicli, Vincenzo Giannone considers that the development of the park will allow the execution of the “energy transition with international actors in Sicily”, turning the community into an “example of economic vanguard and agricultural, environmental and social sustainability”.

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