Unpredictable weather threatens stability of food supplies. On Tuesday, September 7, Sri Lankan-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) presented a report to an international gathering of scientists at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
Warning that climate change is bringing more erratic rainfall, the report stated that the unreliable timing and variable amounts of rain are having increasingly noticeable effects on food security and economic growth.
This is due in part to the fact that approximately 66% of crops in Asia are rain-fed only, rather than irrigated, while in Africa a full 94% are rain-fed. Highlighting the very recent examples of extremely dry conditions leading to this summer’s devastating Russian fires and the opposite in the calamitous Pakistani floods, Sunita Narain, head of the Center for Science and Environment (CSE) in India, stated, “We are getting to a point where we are getting more water, more rainy days, but it's more variable, so it leads to droughts and it leads to floods.”
The scientists recommended more investment in water storage options as well as water management.
We thank the International Water Management Institute, Ms. Narain and other international scientists for reminding of the connection between climate and water imbalances that affect urgent food supplies.
Let us all work to restore natural harmony through sustainable daily actions that ensure our planetary survival. During a September 2009 videoconference in Peru, Supreme Master Ching Hai expressed her concern for humanity in light of the growing global food crisis, while also emphasizing the most comprehensive solution.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: We can see everywhere reflections of a planet in trouble, with monsoons and flooding in one location and people losing their harvests and drinking water to drought in another.
One way that our world can be preserved and stabilized is through everyone’s change to a compassionate lifestyle, choosing organic vegan diet, which not only eliminates methane and other toxic, heat-trapping greenhouse gases emissions from the livestock industry, but the organic part takes care of harmful fertilizer chemicals and allows the soil to absorb a huge amount of atmospheric CO2.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100907-erratic-global-weather-threatens-food-securityExtra NewsAcademy Award winning director James Cameron of the popular film “Avatar” announces that he is making a documentary film with the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe of the Amazon in Brazil who are working to preserve the natural balance of their region by halting the construction of a dam on the Xingu River.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100906-avatar-director-vows-aid-amazon-tribehttp://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/james-cameron-to-make-brazilian-documentary_1163874His Royal Highness Prince Charles of the United Kingdom departs on a bio-fuel powered Royal train for a five-day tour of the country where he is meeting with communities to offer tips on sustainable choices as well as showcase projects for greener living.
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