Archive for May 29th, 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 [...]
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