In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.
Payments for environmental services (PES) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management. The basic principle of PES is that external environmental services (ES) beneficiaries ...
WASHINGTON - The World Bank believes a controversial hydroelectric dam project in Uganda is economically viable and it supports that government's efforts to protect the environment, the bank said in a ...
BONN, Apr 13 (IPS) - Germany's development ministry has initiated a process of intensive consultation with non-governmental organisations, researchers and scientists in a concerted bid to help ensure ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The owner of Ohio's largest egg producer says he's pulling out of the business in Ohio within five years and will start a new venture in eastern Europe. "I am burned out working ...
Despite the profound impact climate change is already having on farmers and food production, governments have been slow to address escalating climate risks.
Chicago - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, today said a review by his office of a report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...