Monthly Archives: September 2010
Waterworld.com: 2010: the year of the floods?
Asad Jarwan Qureshi of the International Water Management Institute was quoted as saying: "Over-grazing by livestock - common in rural Pakistan - can also...
WorldWatch.org: Transforming Vegetables into Products
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), up to...
NtP TV: Funding a Blue Revolution
Nourishing the Planet research intern, Abby Massey, discusses some of the projects throughout sub-Saharan Africa that are working to give farmers access to clean...
UPI.com: Climate change threatens rural poor
"Just as modern consumers diversify their financial holdings to reduce risk, smallholder farmers need a wide array of 'water accounts' to provide a buffer...
MSN.com: Sustainable use of water resources key to fight climate change
Stockholm: Sri-Lanka based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has advocated increased investment in diverse forms of water storage as an effective remedy to the...
SMH.com.au: Erratic weather threatens food security
STOCKHOLM Sept 7 AFP - The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan are part of a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns and...
NationalGeographic.com: How to Stem a Global Food Crisis? Store More Water
As we've seen with severe droughts in Pakistan followed just months later by debilitating floods, the climate change impacts scientists have warned us about...
Cordis.Europa.eu: Water is food security and economic growth
Hurricanes, landslides, droughts and earthquakes are just some of the latest climatic and weather events impacting our planet. Now comes a new report warning...
Reuters.com: Diverse water sources key to food security
In a report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), experts said Africa and Asia were likely to be hardest hit by unpredictable rainfall,...
EurekAlert.org: In a changing climate, erratic rainfall poses growing threat to...
"Just as modern consumers diversify their financial holdings to reduce risk, smallholder farmers need a wide array of 'water accounts' to provide a buffer...