Comments on: BANGLADESH: Community-Based Climate Strategies Are Key http://www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/bangladesh-community-based-climate-strategies-are-key/ IPS Coverage of the Climate Change Summit taking place Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:41:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: TK at Copenhagen: Community-based climate strategies in Bangladesh « Traditional Knowledge Bulletin http://www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/bangladesh-community-based-climate-strategies-are-key/comment-page-1/#comment-125 TK at Copenhagen: Community-based climate strategies in Bangladesh « Traditional Knowledge Bulletin Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:12:56 +0000 http://www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/?p=1588#comment-125 [...] News alerts, Traditional Resource Management, Traditional knowledge Leave a Comment  BANGLADESH: Community-Based Climate Strategies Are Key IPS Terraviva, 19 December [...] [...] News alerts, Traditional Resource Management, Traditional knowledge Leave a Comment  BANGLADESH: Community-Based Climate Strategies Are Key IPS Terraviva, 19 December [...]

]]> By: Stephen Klaber http://www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/bangladesh-community-based-climate-strategies-are-key/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Stephen Klaber Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:43:29 +0000 http://www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/?p=1588#comment-110 The most direct attack on our climate problems is the control of aquatic weeds such as the mentioned water hyacinth. Aquatic weeds turn open waters into "wetlands", then grasslands. The process is called hydrosere. It has been drastically accelerated by pollution and by overuse of our waters. Every fluctuation in water level favors weeds. Each dam or irrigation project creates places where weeds of one sort or another will flourish. The weeds drastically increase evapotranspiration, reducing the water available. They also produce large quantities of silt, that build up the stream and lake beds so that they lose contact with the groundwater and dry up, leaving the aquifers no place to be replenished. This is the heart of desertification. And those weeds are all harvestable biomass, some of it fit for human consumption. But aquatic weeds like toxic chemicals, and hoard them. Otherwise, they would be the solution to the world's food shortages. In your land, some of them may have arsenic contamination. Other than that, what isn't fit for human consumption can be made into fuel. The less water lost to weeds, the more water available for farms and cups. The most direct attack on our climate problems is the control of aquatic weeds such as the mentioned water hyacinth. Aquatic weeds turn open waters into “wetlands”, then grasslands. The process is called hydrosere. It has been drastically accelerated by pollution and by overuse of our waters. Every fluctuation in water level favors weeds. Each dam or irrigation project creates places where weeds of one sort or another will flourish. The weeds drastically increase evapotranspiration, reducing the water available. They also produce large quantities of silt, that build up the stream and lake beds so that they lose contact with the groundwater and dry up, leaving the aquifers no place to be replenished. This is the heart of desertification. And those weeds are all harvestable biomass, some of it fit for human consumption. But aquatic weeds like toxic chemicals, and hoard them. Otherwise, they would be the solution to the world’s food shortages. In your land, some of them may have arsenic contamination. Other than that, what isn’t fit for human consumption can be made into fuel. The less water lost to weeds, the more water available for farms and cups.

]]> By: Zakir Shaila http://www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/bangladesh-community-based-climate-strategies-are-key/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Zakir Shaila Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:39:09 +0000 http://www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/?p=1588#comment-103 Dear Darryl D’Monte, It's a wonderful piece of support, viewed the problems and struggle with the eye of a local victimised people. Thank you Darryl. It will be nice if you please permit us to put it onto our networks including the blog: http://community.eldis.org/krisoks. If you have some time to invest, please see our fotobased movie on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHm2MsSFFg Looking forward to hear you from. Sincerely, Zakir Krisok Krisoker Saar (Farmers' Voice) Dear Darryl D’Monte,
It’s a wonderful piece of support, viewed the problems and struggle with the eye of a local victimised people. Thank you Darryl. It will be nice if you please permit us to put it onto our networks including the blog: http://community.eldis.org/krisoks.
If you have some time to invest, please see our fotobased movie on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHm2MsSFFg

Looking forward to hear you from.

Sincerely,
Zakir

Krisok
Krisoker Saar (Farmers’ Voice)

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