ID: 57015
Title: Vietnam: Catching up with g-revolution
Author: Sarah Hisham
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: Putting itself on the path of economic growth and development post the war, Vietnam is adopting modern technologies to be on par with other South East Asian countries and is capitalising on the second mover advantage to evolve is geospatial footprint.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
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ID: 57014
Title: Malaysia: Towards spatially enabled society
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57013
Title: Thailand: Getting back on track
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: One of the early adopters of geospatial technology in South East Asia, Thailand has been steadily incorporating the technology in its various development activities. Here ' s a look at what ' s going on in the geospatial industry in Thailand.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57012
Title: Singapore: Geo-enabled ' government -with-you '
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: Geospatial technology has played a significant role in Singapore ' s march into the league of developed nations within a short span of time. Not content to rest on the achievements so far, Singapore is actively implementing the technology to secure its growth.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57011
Title: Philippines: Poised for growth
Author: Sarah Hishan and Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: With its aggressive economic growth and development plans and steadily growing awareness about the benefits of geospatial technology, especially its role in safeguarding the nation against the vagaries of nature, Philippiness offers a lot of potential to the geospatial industry.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57010
Title: Indonesia: G - readiness for future
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: Shedding legacies and moving beyond ' business as usual ' mindset, Indonesia is accelerating its economic transformation and evolving a new way of working. It is strengthening traditional drivers with new technologies and evolving infrastructure to carry the nation forward. Here ' s an insight into the geospatial scenario of a country which has recently approved the landmark Geospatial Information Act.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57009
Title: Pacific communities face cultural genocide
Author: Grain and Sandy Gauntlett
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: None
Abstract: Sandy Gauntlett is an environmental activist of Maori descent. He lectures in indigenous resource management at the indigenous university of Te Wananga O Aotearoa in New Zealand. He also chairs the Pacific Indigenous Peoples Environment Coalition and the Pacific Regional Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57008
Title: Climate change in West Africa the risk to food security and biodiversity
Author: Ofedi and Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Climate change
Abstract: West Africa is extremely vulnerable to climate change, in part because its agriculture is essentially rain-fed. Deeply disturbing alterations in the climate are already being noticed, and worse can be expected. If cataclysmic unpheavals are to be avoided, the region needs urgently to find ways of conserving precious ecosystems and of supporting peasant farmers and other groups to use their tranditional knowledge to adapt to far-reaching changes.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57007
Title: Farmer ' s rights or fools ' bargain?
Author: Guy Kastler
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Agricultural biodiversity
Abstract: The climate crisis adds another dimension of urgency in dealing with the world ' s dwindling agricultural biodiversity. The seeds of today will have to be adapted to changes in climate and the ensuing changes in ecosystems. Such adaptation can only be based on the wealth of agricultural biodiversity that farmers have created. Farmer ' s seeds and seed systems have never been more important to humanity, and yet never have they been more threatened. A growing array of laws and regulations spreads around the world to prevent famers from working with seeds, while new technologies, such as GMOs, put these seeds at risk of contamination and destruction. Meanwhile, the handful of seed corporations that now dominate the global seed market want unfettered access to the seeds that have been taken from farmers and stored in the world ' s gene banks.
In this context, the Governing Body of the International Treaty on plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture held its third session on 1-5 June 2009 in Tunis. Guy Kastler, the European delegate to La Via Campesina ' s Biodiversity Commission, and representative of the Reseau Semences Paysannes of France, explains what he sees as the failures of the Treaty and the opportunities and spaces for acion emerging from Tunis.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57006
Title: Real problems, false solutions
Author: None
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Methane emissions
Abstract: Three activities - no-till agriculture, biochar and more intensified livestock farming with reduced methane emissions-are likely to benefit from increased funding because of their alleged role in combating global warming. What is the evidence that these activities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions? What will happen to the world ' s biodiversity and the global climate if these sectors are hugely expanded? And who is likely to benefit?
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57005
Title: The agribusiness lobby arrives in Copenhagen
Author: None
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Abstract: Until now, agriculture has been largely excluded from global carbon markets, but this is set to change in December 2009 at the Copenhagen conference. Agribusiness companies are lobbying hard to make a range of farming activities eligible for future funding under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). As a result, billions of dollars will almost certainly be invested in agriculture, mainly livestock production and plantations. What makes this prospect so alarming is that this huge investment, carried out in the name of mitigating the climate crisis, will be channelled largely to big agribusiness. And it is precisely their approach to farming and food production that has created so many of the problems we face today.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57004
Title: Earth matters - Tackling the climate crisis from the ground up
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57003
Title: The international food system and the climate crisis
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Food sovereignty
Abstract: Today ' s global food system, with all its high-tech seeds and fancy packaging, cannot fulfil its most basic function of feeding people. Despite this monumental failure, there is no talk in the corridors of power of changing direction. Large and growing movments of people clamour for change, but the world ' s governments and international agencies keep pushing more of the same: more agribusiness, more industrial agriculture, more globalisation. As the planet moves into an accelerating period of climate change, driven, in large part, by this very model of agriculture, such failure to take meaningful action will rapidly worsen an already intolerable situation. But in the worldwide movement for food sovereignty, there is a promising way out.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57002
Title: Empty coasts, barren seas
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, July 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: None
Abstract: Gaining access to the territorial waters of many developing countries has been a goal of expanding global capital in recent years. It comes in different forms and under different names but with the single objective of extracting profits for big business. The European Union (EU) is at the forefront of this drive. Through fisheries partnership agreements (FPAs), the EU is able to sustain its lucrative fishing industry and export its overfishing problems to other parts of the world-Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific-often with disastrous consequences for local small fisheries. Now the EU is testing Asia ' s waters. In this article, GRAIN investigates how Asia ' s small fisheries stand under the proposed EU-ASEAN free trade agreement (FTA).
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57001
Title: The struggle against IPR in the Andes
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, July 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Biodiversity, privatisation
Abstract: In Ecaudor, Bolivia and Peru, initiatives have been taken recently that raise hopes that mechanisms might be created to stop the further privatisation of knowledge and life. So far, progress has been disappointing, with fundamental problems remaining unsolved. Once again, it is up to local people to defend knowledge and biodiversity against destruction and privatisation.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None