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Women churn cooked rice in the husk at a rice mill July 18, 2008 in Srinigar, Bangladesh. Rice, a basic staple for Bangladesh's 144 million people, has nearly doubled in due to shortages caused by floods, a cyclone and the continued rise of fuel prices. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Women churn cooked rice in the husk at a rice mill July 18, 2008 in Srinigar, Bangladesh. Rice, a basic staple for Bangladesh's 144 million people, has nearly doubled in due to shortages caused by floods, a cyclone and the continued rise of fuel prices. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The Security Implications of Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific: Food Security, Water Security and Migration

The 38th Williamsburg Conference will take place in Los Baños, Philippines from May 20-23, 2010.

The Conference will be co-organized with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) will serve as the local host and co-organizer of the Conference.  It will be the third time the Williamsburg Conference will be held in the Philippines.

This year’s conference explores the Asia-Pacific regional security implications of climate change, with a particular emphasis on how the looming potential food and water shortages and the specter of climate change-induced migration will stress existing national and international governance structures and what can be done now and in the future to best address these challenges.

Paterno C. Borlagdan | 02:23:10 09:13pm
Efforts to combat climate change (CC) and rising fossil fuel cost have accelerated investments in biofuel industry and fuel efficient technologies. There are unresloved issues. Some scientists firmly believe that based on scientific evidence, burning of fossil fuel leading to green house gas (GHG) is the major cause of CC. Others argue, CC is just a repeat of past global events. Others said biofuel is not a sustainable way because the net result is not significant; biofuel offer less GHG but the processing biomass contribute much GHG. Biomass production compete for the resources of food/fiber production. Fossil fuel is the major cause? Then R&D (other than biofuel) to partially or totallly replace fossil fuel must be top priority. Besides its supply is diminishing. "The problems we face today can't be solved by same level of thinking that created them". Hence, CC must be addressed not on the level of fossil fuel level thinking?

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