This report provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in the decade 2012- 2022. It finds that at the national level monetary poverty essentially stagnated while urban poverty, admittedly a much smaller in absolute and relative terms, dramatically increased. In 2022, monetary poverty affected about 75 …
Gibson Guitar Corp., a big user of ebony and other scarce woods, for years has allied itself with Greenpeace and other environmental groups to show it was serious about preserving forests. That didn't stop the Nashville-based company, whose guitars are used by such musicians as B.B. King and Angus Young …
A meeting scheduled for August 25th between rosewood traders, the Ministry of Forest and Environment, and other government officials may determine the fate of tens of millions of dollars' worth of rosewood illegally logged from Madagascar's rainforests parks. The meeting, which will take place in Sambava in northern Madagascar's SAVA …
COCONUT trees are found across the world and it is said that they played a fundamental role in human migrations and the development of civilisations. So far, nobody has studied the genetic variability in the tree. Now a study of the DNA shows that coconuts have two well-defined and differentiated …
Farmers in the state, who have sown paddy through 'Shri' (System of Rice Intensification) technique of Madagascar Methods have reaped better harvest. Farmer Kodulal, son of Babulal Sahu of village Kesla in Barghat development block stood out among the farmers who got more yield through this technique to taking a …
Baobabs (Adansonia spp.) are iconic trees, known for their immense size, strange forms, sources of food and as the subjects of myths and mysteries. It is thus surprising that little is known regarding the fungi that infect these trees. During a survey to determine which wound infecting fungi occur on …
In this article, the authors compare the practical policy implications that can be derived from the calculation, from 1980 to 2004, of three aggregate sustainability indicators for Madagascar. The chosen indicators are the adjusted net saving (ANS), the genuine progress indicator (GPI), and the ecological footprint (EF). The results are …
The system of rice intensification (SRI), developed in Madagascar, is based on a set of practices to manage plants, soil, water and nutrients that reduce seed requirement, save irrigation water, lower the costs of production, while enhancing crop yield. This makes irrigated rice cultivation more productive, profitable and sustainable. SRI …
Warming is held responsible for a rash of extinctions of global lizard populations. Lizards should be relatively invulnerable to warming: They are very good at evading thermal stress, tolerate high body temperatures, and resist water loss. Nevertheless, on page 894 of this issue, Sinervo et al. (1) document extinctions of …
Surajeet Das Gupta / New Delhi December 14, 2009, 0:06 IST Varun Energy Corporation, a group company of steel exporter Varun Industries Limited, has acquired uranium mines in Madagascar, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. Varun Energy is one of the first private Indian companies to acquire rights directly …
Projects in Madagascar could provide a model for stemming deforestation. But first these efforts must deal with the poverty and political upheaval that threaten forests, reports Anjali Nayar.
For more than 40 years, Earth has been sending out distress signals. We have responded through staging processions on Earth days, holding seminars, passing environmental laws and forging a few international treaties, like in the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero. All the while, the decline of the earth's …
International investors have recently shown a fast-growing interest in land in developing countries. The IIED, the FAO and IFAD drew attention to the phenomenon of large-scale real estate purchases. In this article, two of the study's authors bemoan that international media coverage has since emphasised the risks involved-without much regard …
Endangered lemur species found only in Madagascar are being slaughtered and served up in local restaurants as poachers take advantage of a security vacuum on the island after a coup earlier this year. Pictures of the blackened remains of scores of crowned lemurs and golden crowned sifakas, smoked in preparation …
Zimbabwe is on the brink of having 100,000 infections of cholera, a preventable disease that has already killed 4,283 people there and remains a serious threat, the Zimbabwean Red Cross and its partners said on Tuesday. The damaged water and sewage systems that triggered the recent outbreak in the southern …
A network of "super-reefs" off east Africa are unusually resilient to climate change and could provide important lessons for coral conservation in other parts of the world, researchers said on Friday. Experts say the planet has lost about a fifth of its corals and warn that many of the remaining …
Up to 250,000 children are at risk of malnutrition and disease in southern Madagascar as a political crisis and tropical cyclones exacerbate severe food shortages, the UN children agency said. UNICEF said that the rains had failed again in the Indian Ocean island's southern region, devastating the last harvest and …
Madagascar's vanilla producers expect that a double hit from destructive cyclones and a deadly political crisis will cut output of the food flavouring and hurt buyers' confidence during the 2009-2010 season. Three tropical cyclones have torn across the Indian Ocean island since January damaging crops while producers fear that a …
