As much as energy security is integral to Indian climate change policy, meeting basic development targets are important too. A few days ago, the UK gave £6m towards Indo-British research projects, out of which £1.5m has been earmarked ‘to exploit and develop advances in biotechnology applicable in an agricultural context.’  This, in the same week that [...]

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently published some research which found that, in poor countries such as Ethiopia, poverty is a seriously barrier to adaptation. Apparently, more than a third of rural Ethiopian households have not made any adjustments to their farming practices in the face of global warming. This is despite the [...]

  Last week, ministers from 53 African countries gathered at a FAO summit in Libya, entitled “Water for Energy and Agriculture in Africa: the Challenges of Climate Change”. It was timely. Irrigated land forms 38% of all land in Asia, but only 7% in Africa, and Africa’s food needs will triple by 2050 if population [...]

Amongst talks of supporting developing countries through funding and technology transfer, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) held a side event here at Poznan yesterday, to promote their partnership with China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST). A key example of a collaboration between an Annex 1 and a non-Annex 1 [...]