Ecology/Environment
Three factors that can derail India’s growth
Rediff.com Business Water Freshwater withdrawal today by steel, cement, aluminium, fertiliser, paper and power sectors is equivalent to the total domestic water demand (around 42 billion cubic metres per annum).Freshwater consumption (water that is lost through evaporation, products and wastes in industries) equals the total drinking and cooking water needs of India (5.6 billion cubic [...]
Comparative Indo-LatAm Geography (mountains + rivers)
Length Comparison in an old Victorian map between the rivers in South America – the Amazon, River Plate (La Plata), and Orinoco (made famous in song by Enya) with the rivers Ganges and Indus. via Flickr Photo Download:
Developing countries need $83 bn a year to feed 9.1bn people in 2050
livemint.com Primary agriculture investment needs include some $20 billion a year earmarked for crop production and $13 billion for livestock, the FAO said in a paper ahead of a forum on how to feed the world in 2050 it is due to hold on 12 Oct-13 Oct in Rome. A further $50 billion a year [...]
Water Wars – Winners and Losers; Latin America a Winner, India a Loser
The agricultural output of India over the next 3 decades could be severely curtailed if water shortages are not addressed. The populist measure of giving Indian farmers free power has resulted in rapid depletion of groundwater supplies for agriculture. I saved Andy Mukherjee’s Bloomberg columns from 2 years go where he wrote about problems created [...]
Food, Energy Outpace Production
Technology – an eFood Article at Scientist Live With the caloric needs of the planet expected to soar by 50 percent in the next 40 years, planning and investment in global agriculture will become critically important, according a new report released today (June 25). The report, produced by Deutsche Bank, one of the world’s leading [...]
Powering an Entire Country With Renewable Energy – focus on biomass
This Sietch blogger has done some calculations relevant for the US. Can be extended to other countries. What intrigued me was his reference to biomass – India and Latin America, are a veritable bounty for biomass with their extensive tree cover, not to mention livestock populations. The potential in India alone is something like 16,000 [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE-LATIN AMERICA: Frightening Numbers
IPS The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean need billions of dollars to deal with the economic impact of climate change — funding that is not easily found on the international market. Some of the immediate effects of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean are a 0.1 degree Celsius rise in temperature [...]
California leads fight against climate change on global level
This is like saying ‘Artillery crew leads fight against gunshot wounds’.California leading the fight is a little rich since it consumes more fuel than Indialargely because of its auto-centric transportation system.Instead of California leading the charge, maybe India should given its favorable position on emissions per capita and energy intensity per capita (See graph above). [...]
Havas Media: India most alarmed by climate change
Eco-absorbed scores in line with National Geographic survey results from earlier this year.Televisionpoint.com News Based on interviews with more than 11,000 respondents in India, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain, UK and US, the study unearthed both local and global characteristics that develop the current theories on a number of widely-debated issues. Brazil, China and [...]
Global Financial Crisis a Bad Sign for Andean Biodiversity
Guatemala News | The Andean region is rich in petroleum and natural gas deposits. There are more than 180 petroleum and natural gas fields across the western Amazon, which comprises the five Andean countries, and 72 percent of the jungle territory of Peru is affected by plans for fossil fuel exploitation, according to a study [...]
Subscribe to IndusLatin's RSS feed
