The first-ever Young Water Professionals Symposium (YWPS), organized by the Sri Lanka Water Partnership and co-sponsored by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in partnership with Unilever Sri Lanka takes place in Colombo from Novembe…
Indonesia’s Berbak National Park is one of the largest undisturbed peat swamp forests in South-East Asia and has recently been recognised as a wetland of international importance due to the huge amount of carbon it harbours in its soil.
A climate mitigation scheme aiming to protect the world’s forests must work through local democratic institutions or risk leaving communities and indigenous groups open to exploitation from powerful international actors seeking access to the world’…
Support for a work program on agriculture is urgently needed at Doha to incorporate the growing sector into international efforts to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change as well as address looming food security issues, said experts.
Humidtropics, a major new research-for-development program launched today, aims at increasing average farm income by 50% with 25% of poor households lifted above the poverty line in the humid tropics in the next 15 years. Research leading to production…
