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Green Economy – Link to sustainable development: Achim Steiner
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 4:02 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16731" align="alignright" width="114" caption="Achim Steiner"][/caption] A FEW years ago, the idea of a Green Economy with its links to sustainable development and poverty eradication, was a novel concept confined to development practitioners and academics. This year, it is among the top two issues that will be deliberated by policymakers at the more...
Making development sustainable: Akhtar Cheema
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 4:00 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16743" align="alignright" width="85" caption="Mahmood Akhtar Cheema"][/caption] THE INTERNATIONAL Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with the mission to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and more...
Sustainable approach suits small farmers in Pakistan
By Technology Times at May 9, 2012 | 10:52 am | 0 Comment
By Muhammad Ali AGRICULTURE IS the bread and butter for small landholders. They face numerous problems which have not been resolved by approaches pursued so far. It is a dire need to shift to sustainable agriculture approach, changing the priority from farms to farmers development. The suggested approach relies on three fundamental components of extension activities more...
Tech Foresight for sustainable S&T, innovations
By Technology Times at April 21, 2012 | 4:20 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_15210" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Badar Minhas"][/caption] IN A recently held SAARC Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Planning Cooperation, NUST Rector, Lt. G. Engineer M. Asghar emphasized about the importance of S & T saying that agrarian economy is of less importance. The workshop also educated the more...
COMSATS’ role in science-led sustainable development in the South
By Technology Times at February 22, 2012 | 11:10 am | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_13079" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. I.E. Qureshi"][/caption] THE COMMISSION on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) is an Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO) with its permanent Secretariat in Islamabad. The organization was established in 1994 as a realization of more...
