Environmental Info

Farmers’ role in building Climate Smart Agriculture through Scientific Agriculture,Soil Health,Water Harvesting,Micro Irrigation.It showcases approaches & capacity support to strengthen citizens’ role in implementing INDCs at national level & promotes best practices-Haiti to tackle climate change.

In an exclusive interview with Mother Channel, at COP 22 conference, Professor James R. Burleigh, USA soil scientist from Sante Fe, Mexico, speaks on his current training program at ENA – Ecole Nationale D’Agriculture de Meknès, Morocco, with Prof. Mohammed Boulif (Prof. of Agriculture, Morocco) covering mainly agricultural research methodologies, ...

A Q&A Discussion Panel of experts from Uruguay, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica and Brazil, address the issues of mitigation impacts in livestock production systems and share how they are managing their measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems in terms of livestock emissions and to identify practical innovations for the collection ...

Dr Lisa Levin (Dir. Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) introduces a panel of specialists during a Group discussion on Climate Change in the Deep Half of the Planet, at COP 22, Marrakech 2016. The discussion centers around the largest habitat on Earth – Deep ...

COP 20 LIMA Presenter on: Importance of organic virus free crop seeds, companion planting trees, fruit trees and food crops which create a more bio-diverse ecosystem and resilient farming base. Recommendations on best practices of seed sources and collection. Combining conservation with restoration efforts

COP 20 LIMA Interview with FSC spokesperson on: Protection of forest bio-diversity, soil, waterways are checked controlled by certified organisations. Non compliance will result in the loss of FSC certification. Interview with spokesperson from Landscapes.org on impacts of growing potato crops at higher than normal elevations in Peru, due to ...

UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, speaks on Land Rights and a Holistic Ecosystem approach to climate change adaptation, at COP 20 LIMA. Indigenous peoples have a natural integrated approach to the environment and segregated land for single use is not something that resonates with ...

In an interview at COP 20, Lima, with a speaker from Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA), who spoke on the issue of smallholder farmers having the simultaneous roles of  ‘Risk’ and ‘Information’ managers in today’s farming environments with the added complexities and challenges of climate change as well. In terms ...

In our follow up interview with bee researcher, Ms Jenny Cullinan, (co-founder of UJUBEE), we covered Disease in bees, Artificial insemination versus natural breeding and Self medicating to maintain healthy immune systems in the colonies, and in this final interview we conclude with protection of bees (legislation), biodiversity and healthy ...

In our first interview with bee researcher, Ms Jenny Cullinan, (co-founder of UJUBEE), we covered the research of South African wild bees for the last 3 years, mainly at Cape Point Nature Reserve, bee conservation and collaborative work with related international institutions.  In Part Two we look at disease in ...