Mountain Climate Change
In this interview, Dr. Andrew Jarvis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Land Use Project in the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT-Colombia), explains some ways how green economy could avoid exacerbation of poverty in rural areas due to climate...
A winter eruption of Volcán Hudson in 1991 innundated the Rio Ibañez valley with debris, ash, and excess snowmelt devastating nearby woodlands.
Hyrcanian vegetation zone is a green belt stretching over the northern slopes of Alborz mountain ranges and covers the southerncoasts of the Caspian Sea. This area stretches from Astara in the northwest to Gorgan vicinity in the northeast of Iran...
To understand how agriculture and poverty interact, we analysed water availability, productivity and institutions for the Andes basins. Water limits agricultural productivity in the southern basins but is plentiful in the northern basins where steep...
Critical imbalances in Earth’s hydrological cycle and “Climate Change” are presently threatening all of life on Earth. It is therefore imperative that this situation is more broadly understood and that work towards remedying it is implemented. Many...
In this interview, Dr. Echeverria, Director General of CIAT (Colombia), indicates that a new “doubly green” agriculture is necessary in order to continue the necessary increase in food production, biofuel and other commodities while contributing to...
