Asia

"Over 70% of the food calories that feed humanity come from annual grain crops, which occupy 60–80% of global croplands. However, annual grain dominance may be changing.

With support from The Land Institute, researchers in China’s Yunnan Province developed a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial...

From the article: "Tordoff says that what set the collaborative apart from other outside funders of Southeast Asia conservation and development projects was its commitment to helping local organizations set the tone for their own objectives—taking a bottom-up approach instead of a top-down one, with...

Multifaceted examination, packed with detail and perspectives on urban development, including aspects of food, land reclamation and more within a bigger regenerative development frame. Produced in the context of the ICADE Tsinghua, China event 2022, the video focuses particularly on Asia, but with...

Historically, issues such as logging and charcoal production, among others, all contributed to mangrove loss in Asia. More recently, shrimp farming has also played a role in this loss, alongside other factors such as agriculture. Today, the direct conversion of mangroves to coastal shrimp ponds is...

This article contextualizes the circular cities challenge for the Indian context.

By Anusha Kesarkar Gavankar, Observer Research Foundation

Google for Startups Accelerator: Circular Economy is a 10-week virtual accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups and non-profit organizations based in North America and Asia Pacific. The accelerator is designed to bring the best of Google's programs, products, people, network and...