Archive for May, 2008
Climate change will cost Andes US$30 billion’
via SciDev.Net
The study also highlights the key role in the region played by the Andes, which provides ten per cent of global water sources through to its glaciers. Experts say that the melting of glaciers in central Andes has accelerated over the last 25 years.
The researchers say that the Andean countries provide a clear indication [...]
Peru, Chile fight over potato’s origin
One cannot imagine Indian cuisine without aloo (potato in Hindi) chholey, aloo mutter, aloo bonda, aloo chaat. Hard to believe that all this came about in the recent ~450 years(sometime after Pizarro showed up in Peru in 1532) of India’s more than 7000 year history.
via USATODAY.com
The origin of the potato has become, well, a “hot [...]
Farming Systems looks beyond Uruguay
A model that Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd could consider replicating.
via NZ Herald:
Dairy farm operator NZ Farming Systems Uruguay continues to buy up land in the South American country, while eyeing opportunities across the border.
NZ Farming Systems was set up by PGG Wrightson to develop dairy farm operations in Uruguay and was floated [...]
Uruguay drought creates energy crisis
I stayed at the Central Palace hotel on 18 de Julio, in Montevideo last month. When I arrived on 20th April, late at night, I was wondering why there were no street lights. In the following days, I was told of the energy crisis. Wind energy projects need to be installed and brought [...]
Big Power Goes Local
via Newsweek.com
In the late 1990s, the town of Freiamt in Germany’s Black Forest decided to take the fight against global warming into its own hands. Three hundred of the town’s 4,300 residents chipped in to buy the four 80-meter-tall Enercon wind turbines that now top the surrounding hills, generating 1.8 megawatts each. An additional 270 [...]
Big oil to big wind: Texas veteran sets up $10bn clean energy project | Environment | The Guardian
Uruguay has huge potential for replicating these wind farms on a smaller scale.
via The Guardian
T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just $2,500 (£1,200) in the bank. After a string of audacious takeovers he turned it into an independent empire that challenged the [...]
Better farming outlook
Uruguay struck me as the New Zealand of South America – small population(3.5 million), more cattle(12 million) and sheep(10 million) than people, strong component of agriculture and forestry in GDP. New Zealand’s example would serve the country well.
via Stuff.co.nz
New Zealand’s lamb and beef production will be down this year and next, due to widespread drought, [...]
Wine and song
The Hindu Business Line
Aman Dhall, Executive Director of Brindco Ltd, the exclusive distributor of Frescobaldi wines in India, said that in retail, and after paying the stiff import duties, a bottle of this wine would cost Rs 1,800 in Mumbai, Rs 1,400 in Delhi and Rs 1,200 in Bangalore. Needless to say, one cannot buy [...]
South America nations found union
Simon Bolivar before his death in 1830 remarked that uniting the nations of Latin America was like ploughing the sea. It is too early to tell whether Unasur is a step towards proving him wrong.
BBC NEWS
The leaders of 12 South American nations have formed a regional body aimed at boosting economic and political integration [...]
40 Million Acres of Rain Forest for the Greenest Bidder
According to Lester Brown, communism failed because it did not take economics into account, capitalism will fail if it does not take the environment into account. Any move to penalize introduction of negative externalities into the environment (like congestion pricing), while rewarding positive externalities (like planting trees or preserving rain forests) is welcome
via NYTimes.com
Mr. Jagdeo [...]
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