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The aim of the project is to develop a modelling framework that will increase resource use efficiency along with policy coherence, through interlinkages of water, energy and food security factors in remote and impoverished areas.

The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, received a funding boost of $35 million from Canadian agencies for a 26-nation effort to collect specimens, sequence their DNA, and build an informatics platform using digital bar codes to store an

Researchers are quickly amassing barcodes or identifiers for a database of life forms, and developing new informatics tools and technologies.

It is now evident that warming in the tropical Andes due to climate change has a measurable impact on ice glaciers, which are known to have receded over the past decades, affecting water supply.