By admin on Feb 3, 2010 in Climate Change, News Clippings | 0 Comments
Intelligent and inspired reflections from our friend Tony about the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. Got this from a climate change mailing list
By Tony La Viña
Dean, Ateneo School of Government
Philippines Lead Negotiator, Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
I can never forget what happened in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the early hours of December 19, 2009. I will remember [...]
By admin on Jan 20, 2010 in Agriculture and Globalization, Climate Change, Food Security, Hunger and Poverty, News Clippings, Rural Poverty in SEA, Sustainable Agriculture | 0 Comments
HungerWednesday shares this disturbing news at Asia Sentinel we picked up from Manuel Quezon’s FB updates about the yet another rice crisis looming just up ahead.
“This year, I will not have enough rice to eat for the whole year,” says Kong Chanthorn, a rice farmer in Srayov Kharng Tbong village in Cambodia’s Kompong Thom province. [...]
By Jet Hermida on Jan 15, 2010 in Climate Change, News Clippings, Press Releases | 0 Comments
For your weekend ruminations are two docs about the failed climate change talks.
Oxfam Briefing Note 21 December 2009
Climate Shame: get back to the table -Initial analysis of the Copenhagen climate talks
Copenhagen was a unique opportunity to turn the world’s course away from climate disaster, towards a safe future for all of us on this [...]
By admin on Dec 15, 2009 in Climate Change, Farm Technology, News Clippings | 0 Comments
Potty trained pigs? An interesting tidbit from the Philippine Daily Inquirer….
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Farmers in southern Taiwan have started to potty-train their pigs in response to a planned water pollution fee, breeders and officials said Monday.
To keep their livestock from defecating into nearby rivers, a growing number of farms have established special “toilets” smeared with feces and [...]
By admin on Dec 14, 2009 in Climate Change, News Clippings | 0 Comments
Huffington Post has this breaking news about the Copenhagen Climate talks:
The UN international climate change conference is in chaos as the G77, which represents 130 developing countries “pulled the emergency plug” suspending the talks over wealthy countries’ reluctance to discuss a legally binding emissions treaty.
read more about the climate talk walkout here….
By admin on Nov 24, 2009 in Climate Change, DHRRA Members, DHRRA News | 0 Comments
AsiaDHRRA is set to participate in the national Forum entitled Mapping the Road for a Climate Change-Ready PhilDHRRA to be held on Nov. 25, 2009 (Wednesday), 9:00am – 5:00pm, at the Ugnayan Hall PhilDHRRA Partnership Center, #59 C. Salvador St. Loyola Heights, Quezon City*.
Specific objectives of the forum are as follow: 1) to present the [...]
By Lany on Nov 3, 2009 in Alternative Regional Integration, Climate Change, DHRRA News | 0 Comments
Together with other CSOs, AsiaDHRRA joined the march to call for climate justice last October 5, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand in line with the climate negotiations at the UNFCCC talks.
AsiaDHRRA also joined the CSO strategy session on October 4, 2009 convened by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) entitled “Agriculture in Global Climate Negotiations: [...]
By admin on Oct 9, 2009 in ASEAN, Climate Change, News Clippings | 0 Comments
By APICHAI SUNCHINDAH, PETRA PAILIN MUELLER
Published on October 8, 2009, the Nation, Bangkok, Thailand
RICH OR POOR, archipelago or landlocked, the effects of climate variability are becoming increasingly perceptible – melting ice and glaciers leading to rising water levels, extreme heat waves inducing forest fires, and intense rainfall causing severe storms and floods.
Southeast Asia is not [...]
By admin on Sep 2, 2009 in Agricultural Researches, Agriculture and Globalization, Climate Change | 0 Comments
Here’s an interesting tidbit we picked up from Celcias…
Asian countries urgently need to boost farmland productivity and use water more efficiently or the continent may not have enough water to support the agricultural needs of its growing populations, an Asian Development Bank-supported study found.
Dwindling groundwater supplies are already threatening drinking water and crop production across [...]
By Jet Hermida on Jul 29, 2009 in Agriculture and Globalization, Climate Change | 0 Comments
HungerWednesday present this article from Celcias about the Oxfam Report that details how shifting seasons caused by climate change may severely impact food production and contribute to the rise in world hunger in the coming years.
Shifting seasons are destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger – but this is just one of the multiple climate [...]
By Jet Hermida on Jul 24, 2009 in Agriculture and Globalization, Climate Change, Farm Technology | 0 Comments
FarmFriday found this interesting technology while browsing Celsias. So we followed the links and then ultimately came to Cleantech where they’re promoting this technology.
High oil prices, the diversion of 30 percent of the U.S. corn crop for ethanol, and strong demand from China and India are causing food shortages in vulnerable countries around the world. [...]
