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Big companies get real about climate adaptation
Creative Commons: Victor Bayon, 2011 Who’s got billions of dollars and isn’t going to wait for the GOP to arrive in the 21st century before they drop a significant portion of it on preparing for our...
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Bangladesh expands irrigation using solar powered pumps
Creative Commons: Hriodye Mati O Manushi Channel i, 2011 The government of Bangladesh is planning to install close to 19,000 solar-powered irrigation pumps by 2016, in a bid to expand the country’s...
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Climate change in Haiti
Creative Commons: International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies, 2010 Of the many countries at risk from the effects of climate change, small island states are widely considered to be...
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Traditional Argentinian maize varieties may help farmers adapt to climate change
Creative Commons: Miguel Vieira, 2011 Scientists in Argentina are working side by side with small farmers to recover traditional maize varieties that could help them adapt to climate change but have...
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‘Rambo root’ offers climate change hope to African farmers
Creative Commons: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2009 Cassava is “the Rambo of food crops”, and could be the best bet for African farmers threatened by climate change, scientists...
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New report puts arable land at the centre of a new security agenda
Creative Commons: Zarko Susnjar, 2010 A new report released today by the Earth Security Initiative puts the question of arable land at the center of a new security agenda. The risks to national...
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UN report: Climate change threatens global water supply
Creative Commons: Akshay Davis, 2003 An unprecedented rise in the demand for food, rapid urbanization and climate change are significantly threatening global water supplies, according to a United...
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World needs ‘more crop per drop’ amid pressures of climate change
Creative Commons: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture, 2010 Water must be used more efficiently and its waste reduced if the world is to meet rising food demand from a fast-expanding...
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Our favourite climate videos this week: World Water Day edition
Every Friday we select our favourite videos from the climate movement to feature on TckTckTck. This week’s round-up is dedicated to World Water Day 2012. Let us know what you think of our choices in...
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Food security, climate change are China’s ‘weakest economic links’
Creative Commons: Aidan Whiteley, 2011 China’s agricultural security is at risk from climate change and the selling of arable lands. “Food security remains the weakest link in China’s national economic...
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New report says farming needs ‘climate-smart’ revolution
Creative Commons: CIAT International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, 2010 Farming must intensify sustainably, cut waste and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farms, it says. The Commission on...
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World Bank loans Mexico $300 million as buffer against climate change
Creative Commons: Pamela Barclay, 2011 The World Bank has granted Mexico a $300 million loan to promote ways to deal with drought and take preventive measures against climate change, the Mexican Social...
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Christian Aid report explores poverty and equity in a resource-constrained world
Creative Commons: Marcelo Bello, 2008 Inequality in access to and use of natural resources is driving both global poverty and environmental destruction. The wealthiest 20% of the world’s population...
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Innovations critical to addressing soaring population and climate change
Creative Commons: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, 2010 In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged...
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New report sites climate change as the biggest threat to food security
Creative Commons: Magda Wojtyra, 2009 When it comes to expressing the threat to food security posed by changing climate patterns and extreme weather events in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian...
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Bangladesh ‘the world’s most aware society on climate change’
Creative Commons: Development Planning Unit University College London, 2009 Rebecca Sultan’s life has been shattered twice in a few years. First, the 140mph winds of Cyclone Sidr ripped through her...
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WWF’s 2012 Living Planet Report issues dire warning
Creative Commons: NASA Goddard Photo & Video, 2012 An ever-growing demand for resources by a growing population is putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity and is threatening our...
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Our Future Earth: Food Security
“Creating a far more decentralized, diverse, locally self-reliant food system is a critical path to building prosperous local economies and creating local jobs. ” – Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers Food brings...
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Dr. Rajiv Shah: From relief to resistance
Dr. Rajiv Shah | Creative Commons: United States Mission Geneva, 2011 Rio+Solutions works to provide solutions to challenges that will feature prominently at Rio+20, including jobs, cities, food,...
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Record breaking drought in North and South Korea
Creative Commons: Brian Yap, 2006 North and South Korea are experiencing one of their worst droughts in decades. The government in Seoul has deployed workers, water pumps and emergency funds of around...
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