Our occasional contributor Andy Jarvis unleashes the changing geography of agricultural suitability on an unsuspecting world in Copenhagen.
Climate vulnerability in SE Asia mapped
The International Development Research Centre’s Economy and Environment Program for South-East Asia (EEPSEA) has just published a study on the effects of climate change on SE Asia. The authors first mapped climate hazard, including all kinds of different things, from drought to cyclones to sea level rise. They then compared that with maps of population density and adaptive capacity. That allowed them to identify a number of vulnerability hotspots. And here they are, the most vulnerable areas in each country:
All good places in which to start looking for agrobiodiversity to collect for ex situ conservation before it disappears, and in which to test agrobiodiversity for its possible contribution to adaptation.
Nibbles: Aquaculture, Philippines organic, Risk mapping, Jatropha, Plum
- FAO’s Regional Aquaculture Information System (RAIS) website launched. Covers the Gulf states.
- Pinoy farmers urged to go organic.
- Climate change risk mapped in SE Asia. Cambodia surrenders.
- Local weed makes good in Mexico.
- The Prunus mume collection at the Beijing Botanic Garden.
Sea level rise
Forget 59 cms. Talk is of about a metre sea level rise by 2100. “Greenland alone will raise sea level by seven metres” says Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Bye bye Bangladesh. So long Myanmar.
Question: how fast can mangroves migrate?
Nibbles: Aquaculture squared, Food policy, School, Beer
- More audio aquaponics goodness.
- “The road from growing rice to raising shrimp to misery.”
- Angola’s national strategy on food, nutritional security includes seeds. Anyone know more?
- Handbook for School Gardens.
- Oh no, climate change to screw up Czech hops! Now I’m really mad.