Article 2 – As climate change shifts growing seasons and crop development, adaptation is becoming a question of timing, genetics, management  and, increasingly, how farming systems themselves are designed. In the first article of When the Seasons Shift, we explored how climate change is altering the biological calendar of crops. But recognising that the calendar is […]

Article 1 – Climate change is rewriting the crop calendar For generations, farming has been organised around a relatively familiar sequence of events: sowing, emergence, flowering, fruit or grain formation, maturity and harvest. The exact dates have always varied from year to year. But behind that variability was a degree of climatic regularity. Winter brought […]

Europe’s extreme summer heat has damaged crops just as conflict in the Middle East is pushing up energy and fertilizer costs, the war in Ukraine is again disrupting Black Sea grain exports, and a potentially very strong El Niño threatens to extend climate stress into the next agricultural season. The world is not (yet) running […]

Juin 2026 As Europe faces another intense heatwave, the instinctive response is often to look for technological fixes: air conditioning, cooling centres, emergency alerts, reflective materials. These tools are useful, and sometimes vital. But one of the most effective forms of heat protection is also one of the oldest: trees. Trees moderate heat in two […]

Today, we are pleased to share our new white paper: The economics of agroecology.How to organize agricultural diversity, finance the long term and reward resilience Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a critical response to the limits of intensive agriculture: soil degradation, water stress, biodiversity loss, climate vulnerability, input dependency and fragile farm incomes. Yet despite […]

Dear UpyaChat users, May 25, 2026   Faced with skyrocketing input costs amid geopolitical tensions and the arrival of El Niño with its wave of extreme weather events, accelerating the adoption of agroecological practices is more urgent than ever.   You shared your field feedback, your needs, and your ambitions to go further. You asked us […]

29 avril 2026 The latest update from the World Meteorological Organization confirms a rapid shift in the Pacific Ocean, with a high likelihood that El Niño conditions will develop between May and July 2026. Sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are rising quickly, and climate models are now largely aligned: El Niño conditions are now the […]

mars 2026 The escalation of the war in Iran is not just an energy story. It is also a farm-input story. While much of the international focus remains on the immediate fluctuations in oil and gas prices following the escalation of the conflict in Iran, the shockwaves are moving into the chemical building blocks of […]

25 février 2026 Carbon is becoming the new border On January 1, 2026, while global attention was focused on U.S. tariff tensions, Europe quietly crossed a historic threshold. With the operational launch of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) — now covering agricultural fertilizers — climate performance officially became a condition for access to the […]