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 Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions © Katharine Vincent With COP17-CM7 underway in Durban, agriculture has a high place on the agenda. The world’s population has just passed 7 billion people, and is due to reach 8 billion in 14 years’ time. As if the challenge of population growth is not enough, agriculture is [...] By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond is a world-renowned expert on ancient societies. His now famous book, Collapse, is a study of the choices societies have made throughout history in the face of change – climate change, as well as others — and the consequences of such choices. In early 2011, my [...] LEARNING FROM THE PAST WHILE PROMOTING INCLUSIVE DECISION MAKING FOR THE FUTURE: THE CASE OF BOLIVIA By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron Indigenous farmer in Bolivia describes recent experiences with climate variability in the dry Altiplano region of Bolivia © Ana Bucher Speaking at the UN Climate Conference in Bali in December 2007, Al Gore quoted the Spanish poet Antonio Machado telling the assembled delegates, “Pathwalker, there is no path. You must [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US One of ClimatePrep’s primary goals is to highlight unique solutions to some of the toughest challenges presented by climate change. This week we would like to draw attention to a project in Peru that combines an old technique for gathering water with modern technology to develop a low cost solution to dwindling, [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US The information, graphics, and quotes found in the article below were repurposed from an earlier report on this subject by Scientific American. The original article, with additional pictures can be found here. The artificial glacier stores water for the drier sowing season © Nick Pattinson for Scientific American In India, [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Hammad Naqi Khan, WWF-Pakistan Hammad Naqi Khan is Director of Programs at WWF – Pakistan and an expert on field-based environmental and water resource management projects. We caught up with Hammad during a recent conference in Washington, where he told us how WWF – Pakistan is working to prepare [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US
Slate’s ongoing series on climate change with the Climate Desk has a great article on how climate change is affecting the wine industry, and what winegrowers intend to do about it. As far back as 2005, one winegrower implored his colleagues, “We must recognize that [...]  By Nikolai Sindorf, WWF-US Ploughing rice fields near Bandung, Java, Indonesia © Rob Webster / WWF In 1997 I went to the western part of Java in Indonesia to perform research on agricultural water management. Java is one of the most densely populated regions and high-yielding rice paddy lands in the world. The focus [...]  Oviedo in the field (c) Antonio Oviedo/WWF-Brazil By Eliot Levine, WWF-US This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon. The majority of Brazilian Amazon fishermen live in areas vulnerable to climate change, or depend on resources whose distribution and productivity are known to be influenced by climate variability. One [...] |
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