2/2 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: CLIMATE CHANGE IN PHILIPPINES – LACK OF GOVERNMENT PLANNING AND AWARENESS

Video clip courtesy of Probetv Productions Inc. www.searice.org.ph SBSTTA side occasion calls for farmer improvements in environment transform, biodioversity strategies At a aspect occasion to the Nairobi meeting of the scientific subcommittee of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (SBSTTA 14), two “competing” ways to agriculture at a time of local weather modify and reducing biological diversity were discussed. The standard tactic, as exemplified by the genetic modification of crops, biofuel manufacturing and biochar, is touted as a solution to climate change, however poses a critical risk to biodiversity and agriculture. On the other hand, farmers are creating resilient communities, innovating, and heading off climate transform in approaches that increase, relatively than lessen agricultural biodiversity. The aspect event, billed “GRAINS OF WISDOM AND Untrue Remedies: FARMER Innovations, AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY AND Climate Change,” was jointly organized by SEARICE, USC Canada, Development Fund, the Gaia Basis, the African Biodiversity Network and Econexus on May well 17. Helena Paul of Econexus facilitated the celebration. SEARICE noted a clear trend among governments of promoting the cultivation of agrofuels as a approach to mitigate local weather change, while overlooking group based environment alter adaptation tactics. SEARICE coverage officer Edna Maguigad cited a number of of farmers’ adapation techniques, including the improvement of new seeds via assortment, and changing their cropping programs …
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