The report assesses challenges facing the wider uses of renewable energy technologies in water services.
This policy brief highlights developments in global negotiations on the conservation, development and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, and the realization of farmers' rights.
With an annual income of approximately $200 US per capita, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam is one of the world’s poorest countries.
At the beginning of this century, gibbons could have travelled from China to Singapore by swinging from tree to tree. The past 50 years, however, have seen the forests of Southeast Asia largely disappear.
Conservation of threatened, farmer-developed varieties and the breeding and selection of new cultivars are often seen as distinct activities and the concerns of different organizations.
From September to November of 1997, raging fires in Indonesia pumped enough smoke into the air to blanket the entire region in haze, reaching as far north as southern Thailand and the Philippines, with Malaysia and Singapore being particularly aff
Global and regional initiatives including South-South co-operation have a role to play in improving capacity of Asia and Pacific developing countries to trade in agricultural products.
The mask of “green growth” strategies can target or promote “green” production, consumption or investment.