A Brief Note On The Kingdom Of Bhutan

The articles “The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork” by Anna Lappe and “Why Bother?” by Michael Pollan urge us to see the connections between food and the environment. In the article “The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork”, Lappe insists the methods used in food production and distribution have a massive impact on the planet. In the article “Why Bother”, Pollan provides us reasons why people should bother to help stop global warming. There are three main causes between food production and food distribution that play a big role in global warming. Changing the way food is produced and distributed could diminish the dangerous effects of global warming. However, in order to stop global warming everyone has to assist as a group instead of individuals.

Throughout time, humans have pushed forward in every aspect in life in order to improve their living standards, wealth and most importantly the agricultural sector which is the base of every human race. Food is the basic requirement for any individual to stay alive and healthy. In an article by Tamsin McMahon, she states that over the past 60 years, the world population has grown from 2.5 billion to 7 billion while world hunger dropped from 40% down to 15% (McMahon T., July 2012). This shows that our agricultural advances through technology have helped control world hunger and decrease it by more than half, but this is a short-term solution if we want to consider the future generations that depend on our current actions toward the three main pillars of agriculture which are: Health and nutrition, Economy and sustainability all while considering the local small farms and corporate farms.

South Asia is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, where despite a slow growth, agriculture remains the backbone of rural economy as it employs one half to over 90 percent of the labor force. Both extensive and intensive policy measures for agriculture

In the words of Barack Obama, “climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now.” (J. S. World Economic Forum, 2015) This global phenomenon is causing many problems around the world and is affecting both developed countries like Canada and other countries in the process of developing. This report investigates how climate change can pose significant impacts on all countries despite economic stability. Places like Canada are affected by the severe storms and drastic changes in weather and these changes can hurt the environment and the economy. They can also pose threats to crop production and public health. Climate change can also hurt the developmental progression of low-income countries

Human societies since the beginning of time have probably committed more land to Agricultural production than for any other purpose. Demand for land especially for Agricultural production in many parts of the globe is on the increase. Studies have revealed that the rise in demand for food to feed the world’s teaming population, the increased demand for agricultural output to produce alternative energy, high agricultural product prices are amount other factors that have caused a surge in the demand for agricultural land globally.

The subjects of Agriculture and Rural Development, including Natural Resource Economics, will enable me to empirically assess patterns that nest within it like; the relationship between climate change and food insecurity in marginalized communities: The case of semi-arid areas in Malawi. Through this plan, I will be able to answer questions on the nexus between food security, water use and energy security, as well as the indicators of climate change in Malawi. The correlation between climate change, the levels of food insecurity in Malawi and rural development, will also be accorded an investigation

Spanning a land mass of nearly 50,000 square miles with 1,037-land mile and 1,547 miles of coastline the strategic significance is of global importance and routinely is found in intense international summits to ensure stability of the region. Mostly covered with mountain ranges, rolling hilltops, 61 percent forest, and woodland area the country’s terrain presents a particularly difficult agricultural challenge. According to the latest information available, the country only presents with 14 percent arable land with just 2 percent permanent cropland. As a whole, all land ownership controlled by the state being direct responsibility by the state or communally owned, as is the case with most agricultural areas.

It is a fact that people in different parts of the world have already experienced and realized the detrimental effects of their activities where they live. As much as people do not like to live in a dirty city, they are concerned to cut down all the forests and to poison the entire potable water. The governments of different countries together with businesses are ready to implement and fund programs to restore and preserve the environment, but the difficulty lies in the fact that different countries, like people, have different levels of understanding and implementation of these actions. Mahatma Gandhi said: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” It is not difficult to understand, that the main geneses

However, before evaluating the value of ecological utopia, it is important to define what it means. Is it where everything is abundant and people can live happily without even thinking about environmental issues? Or is it the world in which people live as if they were from thousands of years ago, when there were no “technology” and everywhere was still rural? While these scenarios can be of some kinds of ecological utopia, the

Population has surpassed seven billion people, and it is unlikely that the rate of increase will slow down any time soon. The constantly growing population undoubtedly puts a large strain on the environment. First of all, with the ever increasing amount of mouths to feed, there needs to be an ever increasing supply to feed those mouths. Because of this, the agricultural sector has significantly grown. Increased animal farming has caused a high release of methane, and as R. L. M. Schils, a global change biologist states, “[greenhouse gas] emissions… are the highest in regions with high animal densities, like the Netherlands and Belgium” (382). This connection between methane and animal population additionally suggests an indirect relationship between human population and

Classical dances in Bhutan are reflected in the religious mask pageants and ritual dances. With the introduction of Buddhism in the 8th century AD by Guru Padmasambhava from Tibet, ritual and mask dances gained roots in the Bhutanese system as part of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. With the birth of the great Terton (treasure revealer) Pema Lingpa in the 15th century, the mask dances in Bhutan took firm roots and gained an impetus as part of the Bhutanese cultural life. The Ter Cham (treasure dances) and Pe Ling Ging Sum were the most famous of the dances that still continues to this day. In the 17th century with the arrival of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal from Tibet, the mask dances further gained importance. Many new

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992), climate change is an alteration that affects directly or indirectly to peoples’ lives, changing the formation of the global atmosphere with the deterioration of climate. Global warming is a political challenge which involves the hard work between countries and it is becoming a globalized and international problem nowadays. Due to the impacts of climate change, it affects a country’s political issues such as the migration of nations and the biodiversity loss which may lead to the imbalance of populations, the international struggle brought by the lack of sources, and the air quality index (AQI) of each countries which affect the rate of illness. Although these problems have not been fully solved, there are a few effective strategies which can reduce or overcoming, namely using renewable energy, exercising taxes and fines, signing agreements, and encourage people to become a vegetarian or weekdays vegetarian.

However, mitigating climate change and supporting socio-economic development is twofold challenge for developing countries (Wlokas et al., 2012). Varying regional circumstances and priorities have to be examined in order to mainstream climate change policies into sustainable development plans (IPCC, 2007). In addition, financial and technological resources from developed countries are necessary in order to have the capacity to transition to low-carbon development (IPCC, 2007). Development is

Currently , the development of renewable energy resources , reduce consumption of fossil energy , environmental protection and mitigation of global warming has become a common sense of every country in the world. Despite China as a developing country and its historically low emissions, China faces international pressure to control its carbon emissions, which China is already the world 's largest carbon emitter, sharing 29% of global carbon emission in 2013 (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, 2014). Moreover, the demand and consumption is relatively high in the next decades (BP, 2015). China is a large agricultural country, around half of the population live in rural areas.

For a developing nation, the progression of its economy is crucial and the focus on the economies of Southeast Asia have taken the region as a whole quite far in a very impressive time period; however, the region must adapt to the problematic climate change issues of the world as it is still in its developing stage given that if the natural resources of the region are used up, there will not be very many sources to allow the region to sustain its economy upon.