October 15, 2011
A major issue confronting today’s world is the provision of enough food for nearly 7 billion people at present. More critical is the need to ensure that the 9 billion global population projected by 2050 will also have access to adequate food.… Read More
October 15, 2011
In a nation of food lovers, there should be room to grow food aplenty.… Read More
October 14, 2011
Sunday is World Food Day, and there is no question more important than this: If we are failing to feed the world’s 7 billion people, how will we feed 9 billion in 2050? Last year, more than 925 million people—or nearly 1 in 7 people in the world—were undernourished.… Read More
August 26, 2011
Water governance and planning are areas where Singapore can make tremendous contributions to the world.… Read More
Asit K. Biswas makes a passionate plea for a systemic urban management in India that seems to be passed over for long.… Read More
July 4, 2011
With so many water weeks across the globe, what can the Singapore International Water Week starting today offer?… Read More
July, 2011
Poverty alleviation and regional development simply cannot take place without rational water management.… Read More
Despite these close water-energy inter-relationships, there is not a single country in the world which has an energy policy that explicitly considers water requirements for its implementation, or a water policy that considers its energy requirements. Both assume somehow that the other resource would be available to meet its future production requirements.… Read More
June 5, 2011
Scarcity of the resource has dominated global discussions, but contamination poses a far greater threat to humanity, making the need for proper management practices critical.… Read More
June, 2011
A table talk with Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada on Singapore issues. … Read More