Organic farming is becoming more popular every year, and for good reason. There are a number of benefits to organic farming that simply cannot be found with conventional farming methods. Let’s take a closer look at some of these benefits....
Category: Environmental Awareness
A Quick Guide to Living Green and Preserving the Environment
A Quick Guide to Living Green and Preserving the EnvironmentThe Earth's population is rapidly growing, and with it comes more pollution, traffic congestion, and environmental destruction. Fortunately, there are many things that people can do in order to live green....
Five Green Tips to Protect the Environment and Reduce the Effects of Climate Change
Climate change alters and destabilizes the temperature equilibrium of the earth. And… It has serious effects on the environment and human beings. Global warming increases the concentration of greenhouse gases. This alters the earth’s energy balance and temperature, eventually impacting...
Sustainable Agricultural Practices That Protect the Environment
Agriculture is essential to man's continued existence on Earth. Owing to a rapidly growing population, we need even more food now than we did fifty years ago. To meet the food demands of this ever-growing population, scientists have developed new...
Training on the assessment of climate change vulnerability and adaptation strategies
The great body of research in the international community clearly highlights the gradual change in the earth’s atmospheric conditions and the impact this will have on human livelihoods. However, for millions of the world’s impoverished and disenfranchised, 75% of whom...
Community-Based Biodiversity Management – South Asia
Project goal: Enhance the livelihoods and wellbeing of farming communities of South Asia through increased food and nutrition security and climate change resilience achieved by means of conservation and sustainable management of the biological resources related to agriculture. Objectives: To...
WEA Training – Building Women Leaders
“I feel that this land belongs to me. I am a farmer, but no one recognizes me as such,” says Manasa from Challekere, in Chitradurga District. She is not alone in her views; Manasa’s sentiments are echoed by her peers...