New information for agrometeorologists

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The World Bank's Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) — Last modified January 28, 2010 16:45

The World Bank's Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) carries out research and education on innovative tools for risk management.

An example of an agrometeorological bulletin from Zambia — Last modified December 23, 2009 08:56

An example of an agrometeorological bulletin from Zambia

Avoiding Catastrophic Costs of Climate Change Requires Fast-Action Strategies — Last modified November 30, 2009 11:26

Washington D.C., November 23, 2009 – A new report by Dr. Tim Lenton and colleagues published today by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Allianz, a global financial service provider, puts a dollar value on the damages the world faces from passing fast-approaching tipping points for abrupt climate changes.

Announcement: Geoscientific Model Development -New journal for climate model descriptions/evaluation — Last modified November 13, 2009 09:24

I'm writing to make you aware (or remind you) of the existence of a new EGU Open Access journal devoted to numerical modeling, called Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)

Globalization of water: The connection between water consumption and production in a globalizing world. Water footprints — Last modified August 28, 2009 09:11

Fresh water of adequate quality is a critical natural resource indispensable for life on earth. At present, about 86% of all fresh water use is applied in agriculture to grow crops for food and feed purposes, for materials, such as cotton, and increasingly for the growth of energy crops. More and more, water is used to produce commodities for export that are traded all over the world. This means that consumers can have a so termed water footprint (WF) outside their national borders. Trade can enhance global water-use efficiency when crops are grown at other locations with the use of less water, but trade can also shift the environmental burden to distant locations.

ADAGIO Symposium Vienna - Extended Abstarcts (published) — Last modified August 24, 2009 11:15

The Extended Abstracts from the Symposium " Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation in Agriculture" are now published.

Extension and the Climate Change Challenge: Providing Climate Services to Citizens and Communities — Last modified July 20, 2009 08:38

Natural phenomena such as solar radiation, volcanic activity and ocean circulation influence our climate and contribute to its variability. Evidence suggests that climate is now also changing as a result of human activities, such as the emission of greenhouse gases and changing land uses.

Rural response to climate change in poor countries: Ethics, policies and scientific support systems in their agricultural environment — Last modified July 16, 2009 10:18

In the second half of the past century, in less than fifty years, for example East Asian countries managed to climb out of extreme poverty and chart a path towards shared economic growth. Much of discussions and debate around this phenomenon have focused on the kinds of policies that these countries adopted or the nature of political regimes that spawned it. While policies and regimes have indeed been important ingredients, they obscure the key lesson from this experience: due in part to historical circumstances, leadership in these countries recognized the vital importance of managing the politics of change, which invariably would come with economic growth, and fashioned institutions to address this challenge. From this emerged strategies to promote shared growth (Campos 2009).

Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Briefing — Last modified June 25, 2009 09:51

The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research is working to improve how science and technology policies address societal needs.

Winter Snow to Cool Hokkaido Airport in Summer — Last modified March 31, 2009 08:51

The Tokyo Regional Civil Aviation Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has undertaken a project to cool airport buildings using the cold water of melted snow at the New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido.