What the Green Movement Got Wrong: Greens come to see the error of their ways - Telegraph

If the drift of this programme is correct, the consequences for politics will be large. All the main political parties have chosen to put their eggs in the frail, Fairtrade, hand-weaved basket of Greenery, imposing rising levies to develop "renewable" sources of power which cannot do the job demanded of them. The basket is starting to break. There will be a political prize, I suspect, for the first party which dares to put its eggs elsewhere.

CO2 Dooms Wheat | Real Science

After it improves yields. And this guy calls everybody else stupid.

Madagascar must wake up to climate change - and not just at election time | Stéphane Ramananarivo | Global development | guardian.co.uk

The lack of effective information and active citizen engagement are among the reasons why the impact of climate change has been felt so strongly in Madagascar. There has been a flagrant degradation of all natural resources, and the Malagasy state continues to ignores the issue, only to pretend to engage with environmental politics at election time. If we don't act, the future of this country will be sealed within a few years.
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Poverty, illiteracy, vulnerability, famine, chronic disease, shifting cultivation, pollution, waste, lack of water, lack of hygiene: all are words attached to Malagasy society, from the city to the countryside. The living conditions of many people do not allow them to dwell for very long on the large questions, such as climate change. Since daily survival is first and foremost in the minds of the majority of our citizens, climate change is the least of their worries.

Everyone prepares his meals with charcoal, buys environmentally unfriendly imported products (which are inexpensive but of poor quality), throws his rubbish in a corner, chops wood to make furniture. It's a way of life in Madagascar and also in other developing countries.

The floods in Pakistan show our vulnerability to climate chaos | Rina Saeed Khan | Global development | guardian.co.uk

Just before the monsoon deluges that killed 2,000, left 4 million people homeless and one-fifth of my country submerged, our lakes had dried up. We need global action urgently
...The floods have damaged standing crops as well as stored grain and seeds for planting. Pakistan's agriculture industry – a pillar of the economy – could take up to two years to start recovering.

Agriculture and Allied - Another bumper wheat crop during Rabi likely

ISLAMABAD (October 16, 2010) : Pakistan is likely to produce another bumper wheat crop during the upcoming Rabi crop season, officials at Ministry of Food and Agriculture said. Officials said that due to favourable weather conditions Pakistan is in a position to produce about 25 million tonnes of wheat as compared to 23.86 million tonnes last year.