The outlook for all things smart is opening up, including Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). Varanasi, set to develop as a Smart City, will be a lighthouse for sectors seeking sustainable ways to handle demographic pressures, finite environmental resources and climate change.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will spend $1.05 million to improve the living conditions and livelihoods of 200,000 internally displaced peoples (IDPs) from Fata and the IDP-hosting communities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Barely a decade ago, Gaibandha's Abdul Gafur worked as a day labourer and lived from hand to mouth. But the commercial production of Napier Grass changed it all.
Worldwide, close to 1 billion people live in poverty on less than $1.25 per day and more than 800 million are undernourished. Many of them are on the front lines of climate change.
Peru will host the 20th Conference of Parties (COP 20) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — the latest in a series of meetings by the UN’s decision-making body on climate action.
State Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Labour, and Social Security, Luther Buchanan, is emphasizing the need for more youth involvement in agriculture, to ensure the sector’s continued growth.
Efforts are being made to ensure that the benefits of the ongoing agricultural transformation agenda (ATA) of the federal government penetrate to the rural communities by empowering youths and women thereby enhancing the economic wellbeing of the rural dwellers.
This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.
It is designed with Special Invited Research Lectures, Paper-Presentations and Poster Presentations and is honored by bringing peer reviewed Life Sciences International Research Journal Vol 2 Issue 1 with ISSN 2347-8691 & ISBN 978-93-84124-26-7 with all Peer Reviewed Conference Accepted Papers intended to reflect the pioneering state of the Life Sciences Research.
Call for Papers: This conference will bring together the main stakeholders to examine the current challenges and to understand the options available for green living. The major source of non-renewable energy is fossil fuel but with associated environmental problems. Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 February, 2015
This conference will create a platform for researchers, policy makers & consultants to meet and deliberate on Infrastructure, Land Management, and Green Building & Urban Housing. Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 January, 2015