Training Event

Environmental Leadership in Climate Change Adaptation for Southeast Asia (ELCCA SEA)

Date and Venue

6th-10th February 2012 at Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Overview

Aims to develop Southeast Asian nationals to play strategic roles in their respective countries toward instituting policies and leading initiatives that primarily focus on CCA in the agriculture and natural resources management sectors.

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Getting Real about Food in the World : Food Security and Small Farmers

342nd Meeting : Tuesday, January 17th 2012 : A talk and presentation by Professor Lindsay Falvey

At an AIST (Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology) seminar last November, Andre Drenth (University of Queensland) gave a talk entitled ‘The Impact of Globalisation and Plant Diseases on Food Security’. This was a fascinating history of agriculture, input technologies, trade, biosecurity, pathogens, and the importance of crop protection.

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An African Xmas Tree in Chiang Mai

While Europeans may miss their traditional green and red holly over Christmas in Chiang Mai people from the Horn of Africa can find one of their most precious exports growing in abundance  in the wooded hills south of the road to Pai at Sop Poeng in Mae Daeng District just a few kilometres East of  the Mok Fah Waterfall.

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In November we suggested as a way to help the people of the flooded Chaophraya plain whose gardens had died, people in the north could grow trees and send south to plant.

Staff of the Forest Department have warmed to this idea and arrangements have been made for the Nakhorn Sawan Forest Nursery – คุณ สุจิตรา หัวหน้าสวนรุกขชาตินครสวรรค์ โทร.089-4370059 – to receive plants donated by Chiang Mai forest nurseries.

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Chiang Mai residents may recall the hype in 2010 about the so-called “Chiang Mai Iam”, pronounced Ye-em meaning best which some would prefer to call “Chiang Mai Yeah” – Yeah meaning really bad. Associated with Chiang Mai Yeah was “Keow Suay Hom” supposedly about greening and perfuming the city.

One year on and we see the results – accelerated destruction of trees and totally asphalt surrounds of the two new municipal buildings – City Hall & the Bus Station.

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For some years Chiang Mai residents have had the honor of working with a particularly diligent public servant Khun Sunya Thuntakob stationed at Chiang Mai Provincial Office ( Sala Glang) campaigning to increase public awareness of the hazards of open burning, forest fire and smoke haze.

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This morning, not having noticed anything in the press about COP17, the UN Conference of parties to its Climate Change Convention, presently meeting in Durban in the Natal province of South Africa, I decided to do a web search.

So I went to the site of Thailand’s most read English language paper the Bangkok post and searched for “Durban”. This produced two hits, one being an opinion piece from a Eurocrat and the other from the top UNOcrat.

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Event Summary

The Construction and De-construction of Asia within the Trans-Border Context (English – Thai : with simultaneous translation)

Date

Thursday 24th, November 2011

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Isn’t it time for a campaign for ecologically sensible drinking in Chiang Mai?

How absurd not to be able to buy Orange Juice when Chiang Mai’s Fang district is a major orange producer? The markets have plenty of Oranges, Pineapples and Bananas (Oh my mouth waters for a Banana Smoothie) for sale.

Even more absurd is the way folk here buy bottled water to drink when we have potable water reticulated to our homes.

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