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Loading ...FAO: Agriculture Should be in New Climate Agreement / El nuevo acuerdo sobre el cambio climático debe incluir la agricultura
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009From the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): Climate change talks should include farmers Agriculture in developing countries could play crucial role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions FAO has urged policy makers to include agriculture in negotiations for a new climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol. “Agricultural land is able to store […]
A New Tool to Combat Soil Degradation and Climate Change
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Last month I posted about the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) disturbing report about soil degradation and what it says regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). A couple of weeks later the FAO and several partner organizations — the European Commission, the private Dutch foundation World Soil Information (ISRIC), the private Austria-based […]
An IDB-Sponsored “Blueprint for Green Energy in the Americas”
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007At the briefing on the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) biofuel investment plans for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the Bank finally released the study it commissioned from consultant Garten Rothkopf on biofuels entitled “A Blueprint for Green Energy in the Americas.” To download the various portions of the study, follow this link. I confess […]