Bill Gates reveals that the debate and conflict over GM foods are threatening the efforts of The Gates Foundation in its attempt to end world hunger. ‘An “ideological wedge” threatens his global effort to help farmers.’
Over the recent years, The Gates Foundation has been ‘helping alleviate hunger and poverty by giving small farmers the tools [...]

While India is under its worst drought in 20 years, the desert city of Jodhpur also known as Blue City, long a popular tourist spot, is slowly flooding because of the Indira Gandhi canal, a massive irrigation infrastructure that ‘diverts water from the northern “breadbasket” state of Punjab down to Haryana and Rajasthan.’ Jodhpur, the [...]

Organized by the Dryland Science for Development (DSD) Consortium, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) holds a global scientific conference with the main topic of desertification-climate change nexus. The global conference, entitled “Understanding Desertification and Land Degradation Trends,” is being held in connection with the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties [...]

The developing countries will now play a more significant role in the economic policies of the world. The ultra-elite club of the richest industrial nations known as G7 will relinquish its top level global economic forum to the much broader G20 that includes the emerging economies and developing countries such as China, Brazil, and India.
The [...]

Brazil is getting ready to break the patents of North American pharmaceutical products if the World Organization of the Trade decides today that the country can make it, in retaliation to the subsidies granted to the North American cotton farmers, it informed the Brazilian press.
Brazil challenged the subsidies of the USA to the cotton in [...]

Serbia has suffered for long on account of both its history and geography. Now it is suffering yet again due to its own economy and impact of global recession. One would rarely find any other nations in Europe like these former Yugoslavian breakaway nations – they never seem to recover and heal completely. First wars [...]

The Pygmies are basically a nomadic people. None of them knows that their oral traditions are part of the recently acknowledged ‘intangible heritage of humanity.’ Pygmies do not exactly live as their ancestors. Today, they wear t-shirts and even plastic shoes. They have long traded their crossbows to gun craft. They have learned the use [...]

 
An ‘e-Biosphere’ summit, organized by Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) which is based at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, will be held on June 1-3 in London. Approximately 400 personalities and authorities in the fields of biology and technology coming from 50 countries will discuss about the plans to design and compile an ‘Internet-based observatory of [...]

In 2006, Beijing signed agreements on agricultural cooperation with several African countries that led to the installation of 14 farms in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Tanzania. By 2010, there will be one million Chinese peasants in Africa. The official goal: to help host countries increase production through Chinese technologies. The hybrid varieties of rice developed [...]

They were mired in heavy debt that could not be paid to money lenders because their crops failed to yield enough. The agricultural state of Chattisgarh, a widely agricultural region in India, has been devastated by poor water resources that farming badly needs, with water levels dipping below 250 feet from 40 feet during the [...]