Category: Climate Change

AsiaDHRRA joins national forum on climate change »

By 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 [...]

AsiaDHRRA joins CSOs’ call for climate justice »

By 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 [...]

ASEAN is at the forefront of the Climate Change Challenge »

By 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 [...]

Asian countries need to manage water supply efficiently »

By 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 [...]

Shifting seasons to cause more hunger »

By 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 [...]

Here comes the vertical farms »

By 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 [...]

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