Monthly Archives: September 2009
development: Diminishing food security – Syed Mohammad Ali
Overall, Asia's food and feed demand is expected to double by 2050. As there is little scope to expand arable land, growing the extra...
9 Environmental Boundaries We Don’t Want to Cross
International Water Management Institute researcher David Molden said the 4,000 cubic kilometer ceiling on freshwater use - roughly one-third of all freshwater - "may...
Drought-like conditions may lead to higher milk production in state: study
The study by IWMI, a non-profit scientific organisation funded by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), is an analysis of early drought-like...
Time to look at your water footprint?
India, China, Pakistan and other large countries avoided famines in the 1970s and 1980s only because they built giant state-sponsored irrigation systems and introduced...
A dried-up India and an agriculture crisis
Even the International Water Management Institute has warned in a recent report that countries in Asia need to update their run-down irrigation systems if...