Why Hong Kong should be hot for hi-tech agriculture in a warming world
17 October 2021
A local agricultural industry can provide much safer food and enable the government to monitor the production and processing of agricultural products more effectively. click here
Gender gap in agriculture
11 October 2021
Assessments based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) show that 386.8 million people in South Asia experience severe food insecurity and 849.8 million people experience moderate to severe food insecurity. click here
Climate change a double blow for oil-rich Mideast: Experts
17 October 2021
The climate crisis threatens a double blow for the Middle East, experts say, by destroying its oil income as the world shifts to renewables and by raising temperatures to unliveable extremes. click here
The climate disaster is here
14 October 2021
The world has already heated up by around 1.2C, on average, since the preindustrial era, pushing humanity beyond almost all historical boundaries. click here
Future of extreme drought and brutal storms predicted by new climate modelling
17 October 2021
Two new climate modelling studies map how the world might experience climate change under warming scenarios of increasing severity and over longer terms. click here
Drought in northern Kenya pushes millions towards hunger
15 October 2021
More than 465,000 children under five and over 93,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are malnourished in Kenya's northern region, the U.N. says. click here
India: Cloudburst may have led to latest Kerala disaster, say experts
17 October 2021
Weather experts said cloud bursts must have triggered torrential rain at several places in Kottayam and Idukki districts. Cloud burst is a pattern of torrential downpour in a limited area in a short time. click here
China floods: Nearly 2 million displaced in Shanxi province
12 October 2021
More than 1.76 million people have been affected by severe flooding in China's northern Shanxi province, according to local media. click here
World Food Day: sustainably addressing food security
17 October 2021
World Food Day is one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar, and this year marks the second time countries around the world are dealing with the widespread effects of the global pandemic. click here
Dubai's salty farming experiment could help tackle food security challenges
17 October 2021
Traditional agriculture is facing increasing scarcity of fresh water because of climate change. click here
The changing face of floodplains in the Mississippi River Basin detected by a 60-year land use change dataset
15 October 2021
Long-term land use data can be used to quantify floodplain functions and provide spatially explicit information for management, restoration, and flood-risk mitigation. click here
Global syndromes induced by changes in solutes of the world’s large rivers
12 October 2021
A comprehensive dataset from 600 gauge stations in 149 large rivers reveals nine binary patterns of co-varying trends in runoff and solute concentration. click here
Bangladeshi women’s leadership in water governance
17 October 2021
To increase women’s employment and potential leadership in water governance, the World Bank has introduced the Bangladesh Rural WASH for Human Capital Development program. click here
Israel passes on innovation, inspiration to PH on managing water crisis
16 October 2021
More than half of Israel is covered in desert and there is hardly any rain. Due to limited water resources, they developed policies and unconventional solutions to improve the country’s water sufficiency. click here ]]>
