Ecology/Environment
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.
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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 would be [...]
Water Wars – Winners and Losers
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 global investment [...]
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 over the last decade, exceptionally [...]
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 India are [...]
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 published in August [...]
World Conservation Congress: “Latin America is not the problem but part of the solution
World Bank
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will suffer greater than average effects of global warming, with devastating consequences for the environment and economy, and as a result are actively working to halt global warming and mitigate its effects, Pamela Cox, the World Bank’s Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, told the [...]
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