Experts and environmentalists at a workshop in the city have suggested regional combined effort to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change for ensuring food security in the South Asia region.

They said the regional food production would face a great threat in the coming days due to global warming and only the combined efforts involving governments, NGOs and forums like SAARC might addre

The Inter-governmental Expert Group Meeting to finalise the draft South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Agreement on Rapid Response to Natural Disasters has begun yesterday at the Traders Hotel.

This meeting is attended by all SAARC member states except Afghanistan.

The idea of establishing a mechanism for rapid response to natural disasters had been voiced at the 15th SAA

Call for measures to boost production
Karnal: Expressing concern over low cattle productivity and dairy production in the region, farm scientists from the SAARC countries have called for concrete steps to improve the production by sharing knowledge and experience to overcome common restraints.

The scientists, who have gathered here for the two-day consultation meeting on

Experts on agriculture sector from different SAARC countries on Tuesday stressed the need for exchanging information on agricultural research and development to multiply success in the field.

They underscored the need at the inaugural session of a three-day training workshop on

India is mulling the idea of a power grid linking South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka which has the potential to create 1,00,000 MW capacity in the region.

Indian Minister of State for Power KC Venugopal was quoted by Indian news media as saying on Wednesday that the power grid, meant for common use among

The Bali Action Plan shines with lots of hopes for developing countries that in two years there would be a shared vision to combat global warming. In that plan, the shared vision was portrayed as a ‘long term cooperative action” which would include a “long term global goal for emission reduction”.

Of the many concerns shared by the SAARC countries in the area of disaster management, Landslide Risk Management deserves to be placed high on its priority agenda for many compelling reasons. It is a part of their global commitment and obligation to posterity.

Sandeep Dikshit

SAARC Journalists

This document contains the Sixteenth SAARC Summit Declaration: Thimphu Silver Jubilee Declaration

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