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Conference on ‘Sustainable Development Halophytes for Green Revolution’
A three-day international conference on ‘Sustainable Development: Halophytes for Green Revolution’ held at Karachi University Business School (KUBS), KU, organized by the Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilization (ISHU) of the…
UOB ranked 347th as World’s most Sustainable University
The UI GreenMetric, World University ranking 2018 ranked Pakistan’s University of Balochistan (UOB) , as 347th number the World’s most Sustainable University based on certain criteria’s. According to the world…
Sustainable Development
The Brundtland Commission’s brief definition of sustainable development as the “ability to make development sustainable—to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future…
SDPI’s 21st Sustainable Development Conference (SDC 2018)
The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) has announced its 21stSustainable Development Conference (SDC 2018) and the 11th South Asia Economic Summit (SAES XI). This four-day long event under the theme…
PPAF financing sustainable development and community building in Balochistan
The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) held a half-day conference in Quetta for developing strong linkages between duty bearers and community institutions in Balochistan. The objective was to empower Local…
Sustainable agricultural farming system: A key to success
Sustaining agriculture, traditional conservation minded methods combined with modern technology can reduce farmers dependence on possible dangerous chemicals. The rewards of the sustainable agricultural farming system are both environmental and…
Sustainable forest management is the need of Pakistan: Experts
Sustainable forest management needs introduction into Pakistan’s forestry which was highlighted by experts at a two-day workshop organized by IUCN and the Ministry of Climate Change, under the Sustainable Forest…
Soil health environment friendly remedy: Biochar
Land degradation is one of the major problems affecting the world. The term “Land degradation” refers to the decrease in soil productivity and deterioration of soil quality. When we talk…
Sustainable soil management and climate change
Sustainable soil management is defined as soil services like supportive provisioning, regulating, and cultural amenities are regulated and increased. Considerably without harming the soil fauna and flora. The supportive facilities…
Nanotechnology: For sustainable agriculture and a solution for environmental issues
Nanotechnology: Pakistan is an Agricultural country. The population is increasing year by year as the estimate shows that population in 2018 has increased upto 200,449,993. This results in increasing pressure…
Biodiversity underpins the sustainable development of economy and society: Jia Wei
Technology Times and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), International Union for Conservation of…
Nanotechnology and sustainable agriculture
The twentieth century’s most important physicist after Albert Einstein is almost certainly Richard Feynman. After quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics, this man surprised everyone…
Telenor Pakistan has been awarded the Broadband for Sustainable Development (BSD) Program by Universal
PR: Telenor Pakistan has been awarded the Broadband for Sustainable Development (BSD) Program by Universal Service Fund (USF) under which the telecom provider, in pursuance of its commitment to connect the unconnected will…
Role of Genetically Modified Food (GMF) In Sustainable Agriculture worldwide
A GM food is one that has sequences of DNA from another organism inserted into its genome in order to get a desired phenotype. The definition of GM food may…
4th International Water Conference: “Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development & Businesses”
PR: Riphah International University and PCRWR in collaboration with University of Haripur, Peshawar University, Abasyn University and SHFINT is holding 4th International Water Conference on "Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management…
Genetics is the only key to ensure sustainable agriculture; PARC
The amount of food to feed the world population will be double of the existing requirements by the year 2050. The conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for…