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[Climate Himalaya Initiative-NEWS] UP ready with draft plan on climate change | Climate Himalaya ...: Environment officials said the action plan will be executed in the next 10 to 15 years under eight missions set by the Prime Minister. These missions include National Solar Mission, National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, National Water Mission, National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, National Mission for a Green India, National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture and National Mission on Strategic Knowledge.

[Farming First] New Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change ...: Over the next ten months leading up to the next UNFCCC climate change negotiations, thirteen eminent scientists and economists from around the world will work to synthesize major studies to help guide policymakers towards making the best decisions for dealing with the problem of climate change. Other policy targets include the G20 and Rio+20 Earth Summit.

[Climate Change] Introducing the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate ...: to identify tools and practices relevant to the use of agrobiodiversity for coping with climate change and making these widely available. Many of the project’s activities take place on and via the Agrobiodiversity and Climate Change project website and aim at gathering experiences, knowledge and information on worldwide projects dealing with the strategies in agricultural practices used by rural and indigenous communities who are facing the challenges of climate change.

[Climate Himalaya Initiative-NEWS] Hearts of poverty and climate change | Climate Himalaya Initiative ...: Increasingly volatile food prices, uncertainties and effects of climate change and a range of natural resource constraints will complicate further efforts to reduce rural poverty, the report says. The report also emphasises that profound changes in agricultural markets are giving rise to new and promising opportunities for the developing world’s smallholder farmers to significantly boost their productivity.

[California Climate & Agriculture Network] Water outlook bleak for California agriculture | California ...: Three of the eight river basins are of importance for California agriculture, most notably the Sacramento and San Joaquin basins that provide water for six of the state’s top 10 agricultural counties. The report also looked at the Klamath basin (in northern California) and the Colorado basin (supplying the agriculturally important Imperial Valley).

[Untitled] Improve Your “Foodprint”: Farming and Climate Change |: Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, “food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land. That capacity, we can now see, has been severely impaired by urban growth in the Sunbelt since World War II, and is likely to be further impacted by the vagaries of weather shifts.”

[Go Organic! Philippines] Organic farming advocates back DA's organic farming program ...: Entitled “Adopting Sustainable, Organic and Ecological Agriculture as a Priority Strategy for Broad Based Growth”, the paper is pushing for the adoption of a sustainable, organic and ecological agriculture framework by the Aquino administration as a national strategy to boost farmers’ income, increase food productivity, while making the agriculture sector more resilient to climate change.

[The Frog Blog UK: The blog of the Rainforest Alliance in the UK] How we've grown in a year”¦ « The Frog Blog UK: The blog of the ...: In 2010, the Rainforest Alliance’s Training, Extension, Enterprises and Sourcing (TREES) programme assisted over 100 small- and medium-sized community and indigenous forestry operations, and expanded into Ghana and Cameroon, and eight new states in Mexico. In Honduras’s Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve, forestry cooperatives assisted by the Rainforest Alliance achieved forest management certification for the first time on 37,000 acres (14,900 hectares) of land, with plans to expand to an additional 488,000 acres (197,500 hectares) in the near future.

[Blog entries] Improve Your “Foodprint”: Farming and Climate Change - Fiery Foods ...: Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, “food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land. That capacity, we can now see, has been severely impaired by urban growth in the Sunbelt since World War II, and is likely to be further impacted by the vagaries of weather shifts.”

[Beginning Farmers] Wes Jackson to Speak on Nature, Climate Change & Agriculture: “If there are two people whose ideas and values have shaped the spirit of the sustainable farm movement in America it’s Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry.”  ””Patty Cantrell, Senior Policy Specialist, Michigan Land Use Institute.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - Networking for Development] An effort for Adaptation strategies for Climate change at micro ...: In tribal community cattle are the integral part of the family and this commodity has proved itself as asset for the family and environment in the form of cow dung. The cow dung is used in preparation of biogas and its slurry or unused cow dung is composed using earthworm metamorphosed in to organically rich manure.

[Civil Eats] Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Agriculture: Part of the Climate Solution: Unlike several other agricultural states, California lacks state-funded direct incentive programs for producers to adopt on-farm conservation programs. In 2009, the USDA’s farm bill conservation program had insufficient funding for 70 percent of the California farmers and ranchers who applied.

[Take a Bite out of Climate Change] Take a Bite out of Climate Change» Blog Archive » Where the ...: It was energizing for me to hear from Dan Levinson about all the great initiatives underway there — from school and community gardens to community-supported agriculture farms, to a network of restaurants who support area farmers.

[CUSO-vso's Blog] Making sense of Climate Change: For example, in semi-arid regions of Kenya, VSO International volunteers have introduced sustainable agriculture techniques and tree planting around agricultural plots to boost soil fertility and agricultural yields. These activities also allow for more carbon to be stored in soils and trees.

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