This draft Uttar Pradesh agriculture policy 2013 published by the Government of Uttar Pradesh aims to achieve sustainable growth in agricultural production and productivity for assured food and nutritional security.

This report analyzes global prospects for fisheries and aquaculture. The World Bank Group (WBG) Agriculture Action Plan 2013-15 summarizes critical challenges facing the global food and agriculture sector.

This EIA study for Siang river sub basin and Subansiri river sub basin in Brahmaputra river valley commissioned by Central Water Commission warns that the proposed 44 dams, meant to establish a capacity of 18,293 MW, will affect the river ecology and biodiversity and the region all the way down to Assam. Read full text of this report.

This UNEP publication illustrates major environmental, economic and social changes in Asia and the Pacific since 1992. It has been produced within the framework of UNEP’s fifth Global Environment Outlook assessment report, which was published in May 2012 in advance of Rio+20.

The Global Climate Risk Index 2014 has ranked Pakistan among the three most affected countries worldwide for three consecutive years by climate-related catastrophes. Read more in this November 2013 edition of the Monthly Pakistan State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.