Tag Archives: Agriculture

Affordable food

  By iip | October 14, 2011 - 3:26 am | Energy
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I agree with argument on the development of biofuel threatening Indonesia food security. It happen mainly through land conversion. In the next decades, biofuel crops will dominate agricultural land and decreasing forest land.

Today I read a 2006 publication on agricultural land conversion. It says that the accelerating rate of conversion of agricultural lands in mainly caused by very low incentives to work in agriculture compared to industrial and service sectors. I try to link it with biofuel development. (more…)

Tips for conserving water

  By iip | October 6, 2011 - 3:27 am | Earth
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Did you know there are about 1.2 billion people live in river basins with absolute water scarcity? And a further 1.5 billion people suffer from inadequate access to water because of a lack of infrastructure. The numbers are taken from World Development Report 2008 published by the World Bank. Some areas face the greatest water shortages such Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

Because of climate change, there are more frequent droughts and increasing wa

ter scarcity throughout the world. People in developing countries

providing food from agriculture must deal with climate change. And what happen to people in more developed countries? Do they really aware on water issues?

If so, how they deal with water consumption? Alex leigh has tips to save water consumption as well as cut its bill. I summarized it for you:

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Global warming, early spring and silent spring

  By iip | October 4, 2011 - 3:26 am | Earth
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Having reading Goddard’s article on Watts Up With That? then I begin to explore the relevant events on tropical country such Indonesia.

Goddard’s highlights on the recent early spring information, weather and its maps and some other claims.  By the way, do you still remember on the great book of Silet Spring? This book was credited as 100 books that changed the world.  Discovers Magazine named the books as 25 great science books  all the time. Thanks to the author, Rachel Carson, facilitated people alerting on the danger of chemical on the ecosystems.

Silent spring showed  uncarefull material usage affected the birds reproduction and thus changed their population. In the bigger case, the material related to green house gases are heating the earth and thus changes the world climate.

Below are the claims on the effects of climate change on Indonesia:

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