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Reading a recent article of NY Times on global climate deal, I noted that more uncertainty is raising and shown by industrial countries.  It seems that they try to present good message to global society, and agree to do something for tackling global warming.

However, until now their messages are lack of delivering clear and detail action. Current barrier on global climate deal is recognized:

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Promoting agroforestry could be better option for rural poor in combating global warming issues. Agroforestry have been practiced for ages but less recognized by many governments. In agroforestry practice, farmers are benefits farm yield as well as from trees planted. They manage such tree based farm system to meets their needs of food and energy.

Agroforestry innovations have been introduced as an effort of development on market based agricultural commodities. It changes technological factors in production process to increase their productivity and enhance quality of agricultural commodities. Questioning how the impact of such innovations will lead to the process of new technological factors adopted by farmers.

Promoting agroforestry practice request better understanding on adoption process.

Adoption is wide-range term that describing changes process from mental perspective to practical agricultural economics. In farm-level, according to Feder et al (1985) economist defined adoption as the degree of use of a new technology in long-run equilibrium when the farmer has full information about the new technology and its potential.

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The World Bank released a report on the current global crisis. It highlights the situation on East Asia and Pacific.

As I noted in previous my post, both developed and developing countries are trying to deal with the crisis. Even the 20 countries of world biggest economic power have meet in London Summit to develop new collaboration steps for halting the recession.

At the same time, some organizations were proposing green stimulus packages. Within the stimulus plan, the issues of employment generation in green sectors are addressed. Hopefully more countries adopted the proposal as well.

Back to current global crisis, below some facts of differences with financial crisis occurred in 1997-1998:

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