(1/2) ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: CLIMATE CHANGE IN PHILIPPINES – LACK OF GOVT PLANNING AND AWARENESS

Video courtesy of Probetv Productions Inc. www.searice.org.ph SBSTTA side event calls for farmer improvements in local weather transform, biodioversity strategies At a facet celebration to the Nairobi meeting of the scientific subcommittee of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (SBSTTA 14), two “competing” methods to agriculture at a time of climate change and lowering biological variety have been discussed. The traditional approach, as exemplified by the genetic modification of crops, biofuel production and biochar, is touted as a resolution to climate transform, yet poses a significant danger to biodiversity and agriculture. On the other hand, farmers are building resilient communities, innovating, and heading off climate modify in methods that improve, instead than minimize agricultural biodiversity. The aspect occasion, billed “GRAINS OF WISDOM AND False Answers: FARMER Innovations, AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY AND Local weather Modify,” was jointly organized by SEARICE, USC Canada, Growth Fund, the Gaia Basis, the African Biodiversity Network and Econexus on May possibly 17. Helena Paul of Econexus facilitated the function. SEARICE noted a obvious trend between governments of marketing the cultivation of agrofuels as a method to mitigate climate alter, whilst overlooking group centered climate change adaptation tactics. SEARICE policy officer Edna Maguigad cited a range of of farmers’ adapation tactics, which includes the advancement of new seeds via selection, and changing their cropping techniques …
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