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Agriculture

Govt to promote hybrid rice cultivation

Cultivation of hybrid rice is to be promoted in a big way by offering heavy subsidies in areas where the paddy yields have reached the plateau. This will help lift the rice production and productivity to the next higher level from the record 83.25 million tonnes bagged in the last kharif season.

Publication Date: 
27/01/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Crops, Rice, GM Crops, Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India, Food Security
Environment

Youth summit on eco revolution opens at Loyola College

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: A two-day youth summit on eco revolution was inaugurated at Loyola College on Monday by Jessica Wallack, director, Centre for Development Finance; M. B. Nirmal, founder, Exnora International; and the rector, the principal and the secretary of Loyola College. Nearly 140 students from 13 city colleges signed up for the summit.

Publication Date: 
21/01/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Environment Education, Tamil Nadu, Chennai (D), Food Security
Agriculture

 Agro-culture gets its due

Let business lose The first International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, released on April 15, 2008, believes there should be a shift in agriculture to a

Publication Date: 
14/01/2009
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Supply, GM Crops, Global, Food Security
Agriculture

Food security: The challenges of climate change and bioenergy

Agriculture must supply all people with enough food to prevent widespread hunger and starvation. However, food security is aggravating day by day, resulting in more number of undernourished/malnourished persons in the world. The ever-increasing population in the developing and less developed countries is also a major constraint.

Publication Date: 
10/01/2009
R. T. Gahukar
Current Science
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Agriculture, Bio Fuel Crops, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Global Warming, India, Global, Food Security, Rainfall Pattern
Agriculture

Integrating geo-spatial information technologies and participatory methods in agricultural development

Sustainable agricultural productivity over the long term was not a major issue in the 1960s and 1970s, as food resources did not appear to be threatened1. The attention was on producing enough food to overcome the immediate problems of food deficit.

Publication Date: 
10/01/2009
M. Narayana Reddy, N. H. Rao
Current Science
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Farmers, Traditional Knowledge, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), India, Food Security
Agriculture

Soil degradation and food security

The capacities of developing countries to increase food production for its people and alleviate rural poverty is largely threatened by hungry and thirsty lands which shows clear evidence of advanced and continuing degradation seriously affecting its productive resource base.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Rana Vikram Singh
Spectrum
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Land Degradation, Soil Salinisation, Agriculture, Deforestation, India, Food Security, Spectrum, Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Rana Vikram Singh
Forests

Socioeconomic perspective of deforestation and forest degradation in Nepal

Deforestation and forest degradation are the major ecological problems in developing countries. It is a dynamic process which can be attributed to various socioeconomic and biophysical factors, resulting in the conversion of forest area into a mosaic of mature forest fragments, pasture and degraded habitat.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Menaka Panta
Inha University
Tags:
Forest Resources, Forest Management, Deforestation, Forest Products, People, Poverty, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Nepal, Food Security
Forests

Socioeconomic perspective of deforestation and forest degradation in Nepal

Deforestation and forest degradation are the major ecological problems in developing countries. It is a dynamic process which can be attributed to various socioeconomic and biophysical factors, resulting in the conversion of forest area into a mosaic of mature forest fragments, pasture and degraded habitat.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Menaka Panta
Inha University
Tags:
Forest Resources, Forest Management, Deforestation, Forest Products, People, Poverty, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Nepal, Food Security
Energy

From maize to algae

US ethanol producers have had no joy from the stock market. The financial figures of many are awful. Venture capitalists are holding back investment

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Jochen Bettzieche
New Energy
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Land Use, Maize, Bio Fuel Crops, Alternative Fuels, Ethanol, Biofuel, Energy, United States Of America (US), Food Security
Climate Change

Report on international conference on "climate change, biodiversity & food security in the South Asian region"

In view of the far reaching consequences of climate change in the South Asian region in general, and India, in particular, the present International Conference was organized to address the following: Identify and debate upon the effect of climate change on ecological & socio-economic systems with a focus on biological diversity and food security in the South Asian region; Provide a platform to sci

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Punjab State Council for Science & Technology
Tags:
Agriculture, Climate Change, Energy, Biodiversity, India, Sustainable Development, South Asia, Food Security

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