(Award Winning blog-post in Blogging Competition 2012 organized by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Theme of Competition: “The Green Economy: Does it Include You?”) “Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.” –François de La Rouchefoucauld “The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you’re going to live long enough to wish you had.” –Grace Mirabella When it comes to being self-interested, I don’t think the important question is whether you are or not. That’s because, like 17th century author François de La Rouchefoucauld, I believe that every human act is fundamentally self-interested. Instead, I think the important…
1. Introduction Buffaloes have been raised under farming systems of Nepal throughout the known history. They are the traditional provider of milk, meat, hides, manure, draft power and also the reserve capital for the farm families. They are mainly raised by the smallholder farmers across all the physio-graphic agro-ecological (Agro-eco) zones of the country. Due to a key role played by buffalo in the farming systems of the country from the time immemorial to date, interest in this livestock species is ever growing as more systematic planning is adopted for growth of the country’s agrarian economy. Economic traits are those traits…
Chris Tackett Science / Climate Change March 4, 2013 Wendy Koch at USA Today had a good cover story this weekend on the many ways climate change is impacting the economy, the military, the environment and human survival: The economic costs of all these changes are enormous — not only for those directly affected but also for the nation’s taxpayers, who are stuck with the bills for disaster relief, national flood insurance and drought-related crop losses. In February, f or the first time, the non-partisan General Accountability Office said climate change puts the U.S. government at “high risk ” of financial exposure. NOAA…
Nairobi, February 22 2013 – Mongolia, which is prioritizing a Green Economy shift across its big economic sectors such as mining and promoting environmental awareness among youth, is to host this year’s World Environment Day (WED) celebrations on June 5, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today. The 2013 theme for the event, the single biggest day for positive action on the environment worldwide, is Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint – building on the global campaign of the same name to reduce food waste and loss launched earlier this year by UNEP, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and partners. UNEP made the announcement…
Introduction: Botanicals are the pesticides derived from the plant materials. They are very effective in controlling the insect- pest because they possess repellant, knock down, anti-feedant, broad spectrum properties and also they are important because they are less hazardous, biodegradable, and maintain balanced bio-diversity of insect-pest. Use of botanicals is an age old practice where people used to utilize the extracts from the plant parts to control the insects. There are many such examples as use of neem dust to control the stored grain pest, use of various plant extracts like Acorus sps, Melia sps, Acacia sps etc Plant based…
