Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Agrobiodiversity Initiative Helps Sarawak Farmers Cope With Climate Change
Source: Bernama.com Malaysian National News Agency
August 16, 2010 15:07 PM
By Caroline Jackson
KUCHING, Aug 16 (Bernama) -- Sarawak stands to benefit from more economic opportunities with the use of agrobiodiversity by indigenous farmers and rural communities in order to cope with the climate change, said State Agriculture Research Centre Semenggok Senior Research Officer Jean Teo G.K.
She said the agrobiodiversity initiative was developed by the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research.
The large number of rice varieties still cultivated by a great number of farmers represented a rich opportunity for Sarawak and its farming communities by providing livelihood options through social, economic and ecological opportunities and have helped improve both environmental and community resilience. (For full article, click here)
KUCHING, Aug 16 (Bernama) -- Sarawak stands to benefit from more economic opportunities with the use of agrobiodiversity by indigenous farmers and rural communities in order to cope with the climate change, said State Agriculture Research Centre Semenggok Senior Research Officer Jean Teo G.K.
She said the agrobiodiversity initiative was developed by the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research.
The large number of rice varieties still cultivated by a great number of farmers represented a rich opportunity for Sarawak and its farming communities by providing livelihood options through social, economic and ecological opportunities and have helped improve both environmental and community resilience. (For full article, click here)
Monday, June 28, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Organic Livestock and Poultry Farming in the Philippines
ANGOC and its partners in the advocacy of the Organic Act in the Philippines were featured in the online version of Agribusinessweek last October 2009. Read on...
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Noynoy’s green agenda - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Noynoy’s green agenda - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Greenpeace and EcoWaste Coalition in the Philippines released the six presidential candidates’ answers to the 2010 Green Electoral Initiative (GEI) questionnaire and gave overall rankings based on the candidates’ stand on environmental issues such as climate change, solid waste, chemical pollution and consumer safety, sustainable agriculture
and genetically engineered crops, water, forests, nuclear power, mining, etc.
Click on the link above to read the answers of Philippine President-in-waiting Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.
Greenpeace and EcoWaste Coalition in the Philippines released the six presidential candidates’ answers to the 2010 Green Electoral Initiative (GEI) questionnaire and gave overall rankings based on the candidates’ stand on environmental issues such as climate change, solid waste, chemical pollution and consumer safety, sustainable agriculture
and genetically engineered crops, water, forests, nuclear power, mining, etc.
Click on the link above to read the answers of Philippine President-in-waiting Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Bangladeshi Agri Minister urges scientists to protect agriculture from Climate change impacts
The New Nation
May 6, 2010BSS, Dhaka
Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury on Wednesday called upon the agricultural scientists and experts to work together with total devotion to save the agriculture of the country from the wrath of climate change.
The minister made this call while addressing at the inaugural session of two- day International workshop on building climate resilient agriculture in Asia as the chief guest here on Wednesday morning.
"We need to develop many more varieties with higher saline and drought tolerance level. We have to develop more such varieties side by side raising the area coverage of rice cultivation in the coastal region need to combat against the effects triggered by climate change," said the minister at the function organized by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India with support from the Asian Development Bank(ADB).
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