Achieving the Paris Agreement necessitates transformative changes across all sectors globally, including significant reductions in AFOLU emissions and increased carbon sinks, particularly in Latin America where AFOLU emissions account for 46% of total emissions, mostly driven by commodity agriculture and livestock. This report analyses the status of the sector’s alignment …
Bulldozing all opposition, the government of the northwestern Argentine province of Salta broke up a 20,000-hectare nature reserve into plots and auctioned them off to farming and ranching companies. Nearly 3,000 people living in the protected area of Pizarro created by the Salta government in 1995 will now have to …
If a proposed law presented to Argentina's congress is approved, the country's public service companies will have to conduct research on their own instead of relying on imported technical knowledge. The proposal states that every privately held company in the public sector will have to build its own research teams …
progressiveness, flexibility, neutrality and proportionality. These are the key words in a recent proposal floated by g-20, the developing country grouping in the World Trade Organization (wto), to enable wto members to fulfil their three-year-old commitment of reducing import duties on agricultural products. Since negotiators of wto members in Geneva, …
• A study in Buenos Aires, Argentina, showed that over 50 per cent of the children living near a petrochemical centre have more than 10 microgrammes of lead per decilitre of blood in their bodies. This is the maximum limit permitted by the World Health Organization. Investigations for the source …
Harvests in different parts of the South have been a mixed blessing this year. In late November, the Argentinian peso suffered its biggest decline against the dollar in six months as the end of the harvest season reduced the flow of dollars into the country. In September, the country's trade …
• Argentina's education ministry has kicked off a unique project called "When You Read, You Always Win'. Organised with the support of the Argentine Football Association, local football clubs, publishing houses and the print media, the initiative is designed to encourage people to read, and to curb violence in stadiums. …
• Developing economies of the East are racing past their counterparts in the West. From 1974 to 2000, East Asia’s gross domestic product (gdp) grew at an average rate of 6.3 per cent annually in comparison to Latin America’s 2.8 per cent • Three indicators
Transparency International Global Barometer Survey Who’s the most corrupt of them all? “If you had a magic wand and you could eliminate corruption from one of the following institutions, what would your first choice be? ” The overwhelming answer seems to be political parties. So says the corruption watchdog Transparency …
proponents of the global intellectual property rights (ipr) system have long claimed that patents and copyrights are essential for promoting innovation. Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, will think twice about investing millions in research for new drugs if they are not assured of making economic gains from a monopoly on the …
Forewarned is forearmed. With this motto, Argentina has embarked on a mission to launch two Earth observation satellites so that it is alerted against environmental threats. Named Saocom 1 and 2, the satellites are supposed to improve the management of emergencies such as forest fires, droughts and floods. While monitoring …
Clive James, president of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (isaaa), says that Argentine crop area planted with genetically modified (gm) seeds will rise 1.5 million hectares to 11.44 million hectares in the 2001-02 season. Argentina is the second largest user of gm products. The area planted …
they might well be the modern-day buccaneers. To further their research, agricultural and pharmaceutical companies often tap local communities for traditional knowledge relating to the use of biological resour ces. The conglomerates lose no time in appropriating this painstakingly assimilated information. And make a fast buck by developing products based …
The Argentine Movement for Organic Production (mapo), a group of 300 organic farmers, has recently filed a complaint against the Agriculture Department demanding that it should stop approving the use of and suspend all past authorisations of Bt corn, modified to resist insects. They are concerned over the potential long-term …
The entire transgenic cotton episode has exposed the weak underbelly of the government. Dragging its feet on a crucial issue has now landed the authorities in an inextricable mess. And has brought the world crashing around the poor farmers. It simply shows that not only can the powers that be …
Six eggs containing the fossils of baby dinosaurs were recently found in Argentina. The fossils, which are remarkably well preserved, were found at Auca Mahuevo
the use of compressed natural gas (cng) has brought some respite for Cairo. Experts say that cng has been able to drive out a haze from the city. "V ehicle conversion to the cng mode is a major factor behind a drastic reduction in Cairo's pollution. cng vehicles emit about …
Australian nuclear waste will now be shipped and processed in Argentina. Officials of both the countries recently signed an agreement to this effect, which has caused concern among the environmentalists. Australia presently sends its spent fuel to France for reprocessing. But following the treaty, Argentina will import the spent uranium …
A long awaited breakthrough has been made with a decision to establish the first secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty System in Argentina, 40 years after the treaty came into force. A blocking veto against the choice of Buenos Aires has been removed by the uk . Despite the growing number …
The amount of solid waste generated in Buenos Aires has increased by 30 per cent in the last 10 years. This was found during the first-ever study on the city's solid waste. In 1991, the average daily production of waste in the city was 3,353 tonnes, which has now increased …
