Warming warnings
The debate whether climatic changes trigger calamities continues. But there is no doubt that environmental degradation wrecks havoc on Orissa
The debate whether climatic changes trigger calamities continues. But there is no doubt that environmental degradation wrecks havoc on Orissa
Residents of Panihari village are now a happy lot. They are celebrating freedom from floods for the first time in living memory. Agricultural wages have incresed across the district in the past one year. They say their lives have improved because of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).
Aquaculture, or fish farming, is expected to boost food fish supplies worldwide over the next 20 years, helping to reduce poverty and food insecurity, the United Nations Food and Agriculture
ONE hundred and twenty crore Indians cannot shift to urban centres and become software engineers, professionals and service providers. So, villages, forest, agriculture fields, rivers, hills and lakes need to survive in order to enshrine a large number of microeconomic activities.
The Agenda Item of the 28th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on securing sustainable small-scale fisheries (SSF), dealt mainly with discussing follow-up to the Global Conference on Securing Small-scale Fisheries, held in Bangkok from 13 to 17 October 2008.
Tackling climate change effectively is going to require serious sums of money. Developing countries, many of whom are on the front-line in the battle against global warming, will require large amounts of external public finance to adapt to climate change, combat deforestation and move to low-carbon pathways out of poverty. Rich countries, who have largely caused the
Agriculture is the foundation of human life, and of cultural and economic development of every kind. Adequate food and energy provision is the basis for human existence and contributes in avoiding social
Nearly eleven million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are dangerously hungry and in need of humanitarian assistance. The worst drought-affected areas in Somalia are on the brink of famine. There
<p>Interim Budget 2014-2015 - Speech of P. Chidambaram. In the speect he stated that "The Global Risks 2014 report has mapped 31 global risks. Of highest concern are ten risks that include fiscal crisis, structurally high unemployment or underemployment, income disparity, governance failure, food crisis, and political and social instability. The challenges that we face are common to all emerging economies. 2012 and 2013 were years of turbulence. Only a handful of countries were able to keep their head above the water, and among them was India."</p>
Kenya has been ranked at position 86 out of 117 countries in a Global Hunger Index Report . This puts Kenya among 50 hungriest countries in the world. Responding to these developments, Greenpeace Africa’s
Analysis of poverty and its dimensions are various as the ways in which poverty affects the daily sustenance of the poor. Poverty, many a times is simply viewed as an issue of income. What poverty means
Rainfall variability is a key constraint to agricultural production and economic growth in many developing countries. This is likely to be exacerbated in many places as rainfall variability is amplified (even where the total amount of rain increases) as a result of climate change.
This Briefing summarises preliminary findings from research conducted for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
KOLKATA, 17 MAY: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today announced an increase in government subsidy from 20 per cent to 30 per cent to the Self Help Groups for various poverty alleviation projects while
Communities across the developing world have a wealth of local knowledge and ingenuity to adapt more successfully to climate change but they urgently need greater international support to unlock their
The reform measures in the agriculture sector which help achieve goals of improved food and nutrition security and reduce poverty at a rapid pace, besides bringing down inter-regional and
The number of poor Americans who repeatedly ran short of food shot up by 800,000 in 2011 to nearly 17 million compared with 2010, the U.S. government said on Wednesday. The Department of Agriculture
For drylands with low inherent levels of biological productivity, coping with climate change presents particular problems. The world’s drylands cover over 40 % of the global terrestrial area and house
This report is based on the outcome of discussions during a roundtable conference on ’Blue Revolution: Charting South Asia’s Water Future’ organised on 11 April, 2011, by ORF in collaboration with PHD
Average rainfall: 1,300 mm <br> Irrigation: 2% of gross cropped area