Monthly Archives: March 2011

Carbon dioxide and drought (Science Daily)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Read at : ================================================= http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153504.htm Cutting Carbon Dioxide Could Help Prevent Droughts, New Research Shows ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2011) — Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give Earth a wetter … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate / climate change, drought

ETHIOPIA: The great land-grab debate (IRINNews)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Read at : ==================================================== http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92292 GAMBELLA, 25 March 2011 (IRIN) – Ethiopia has little time for critics of its large-scale land-leasing policy, insisting the millions of dollars of foreign investment will create jobs, improve domestic agricultural expertise and reduce both … Continue reading →

Posted in land grab

Desertification : The solutions are not technically difficult (Google / Greenstone)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Read at : ================================================ http://www.greenstone.org/greenstone3/nzdl;jsessionid=C7EFFF6F7296713DF9F1F4A3FF899D61?a=d&d=HASH0106d6c654d41fd9b548f38e.4&c=edudev&sib=1&dt=&ec=&et=&p.a=b&p.s=ClassifierBrowse&p.sa= DESERTIFICATION: The Sands of Change, United Nations Environment Programme The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that about 3500 million hectares of land… an area the size of North and South America combined are affected … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification

A quiet, humble mission to save the world from the ravages of climate change (Google / Savory Institute)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification =============================================== http://www.savoryinstitute.com/imported-20100211170933-home/2011/3/25/changing-our-future.html Changing Our Future We want to thank Erica Etelson for her latest entry on her Sungevity blog. Erica highlights the successes at Dimbangombe Ranch in Zimbabwe and helps her readers gain a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate / climate change, food / food security

Irrigation, livestock and fisheries projects to make more food available locally (Google / AlertNet)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/us-spends-10-mln-to-tackle-food-aid-dependency-in-north-kenya US spends $10 mln to tackle food aid dependency in north Kenya Lack of rain and desertification have it difficult to grow food in northern Kenya, making the region increasingly food insecure. … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, hunger / famine

Mozambique Aims To Halve Malnutrition By 2020 (WFP)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Read at : ==================================================== http://www.wfp.org/stories/mozambique-takes-action-fight-malnutrition The World Food Programme has joined a new action plan by the Mozambican government to bring down one of Africa’s highest rates of chronic malnutrition. MOAMBA, MOZAMBIQUE — Tina Sergio is 11 months old but … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, malnutrition, micronutrients, WFP

Desertification Index (Google / CNKI)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Read at : ============================================================== http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-CYXB201003002.htm Evaluation of MODIS MOD13Q1 data in desertification in the north area of Xinjiang LIU Yan1,LI Yang1,CUI Cai-xia1,RUAN Hui-hua2 (1.Institute of Desert Meteorological,China Meteorological Administration,Urumqi 830002,China;2.Meteorological Information Center of Guangdong,Guangzhou 510080,China) We use MODIS MOD13Q1(vegetation indices … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification

Global Desertification Vulnerability Map (Google / NRCS)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Read at : Google Alert- desertification ============================================= http://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/mapindex/desert.html Global Desertification Vulnerability Map Key Words: desertification, desertification map About the Map: The Desertification Vulnerability map is based on a reclassification of the global soil climate map and global soil map. Possible … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, Soil

“Climate for You” (Google / BikyaMasr)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification ============================================================== http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=31221 UN celebrates contribution of climate services to human well-being By Bikya Masr Staff | The United Nations is celebrating the contribution of national climate services to people’s daily lives as it … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate / climate change, Desertification, Ecology - environment, UNCCD, WMO

Green Economy ? (Google / Grist)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification ================================================================ http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-24-rio-20-toward-a-new-green-economy-or-a-green-washed-old-economy RIO+20: Toward a new green economy—or a green-washed old economy? by Jim Thomas I’ve got good news and bad news about the future of the planet. Good news first. Next year, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate / climate change, Desertification, Ecology - environment, ecosystems