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Aijaz A. Nizamani

Aijaz A. Nizamani

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Forestry and carbon offsets

THANKS to the use of fossil fuels, coal, crude and natural gas over the past few centuries, the world has seen a massive release of carbon dioxide...

15.07.2023 100

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Budget 2024 & food security

PAKISTAN’S budget proposal for 2023-24 is being debated in the National Assembly and is expected to be approved. As usual, the budget, with an...

22.06.2023 200

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Aijaz A. Nizamani

Forests, trees as carbon offsets

ECOLOGISTS and environmentalists have, for many decades, advocated for sustainable forms of economic development. The world has been on an expansive...

16.06.2023 200

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Kacho area’s plight

PAKISTAN is geographically vast and ecologically diverse. The country has dry temperate mountains with the largest glaciers outside polar regions in...

21.05.2023 90

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Fears of scarcity and excess

FIGURES for wheat output in 2023 are emerging as Pakistani farmers — starting from southern and eastern Sindh — plant Kharif crops such as cotton...

29.04.2023 100

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Feeding the poorest

SINDH’S eastern districts of Sanghar, Umerkot and Badin are agricultural planners’ canaries in the coal mine for the wheat crop. The output from...

01.04.2023 90

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Investing in food and water

PAKISTAN has reached its dead end of unproductive borrowing. The country is mired in a debt trap, with a national debt of over Rs63,000 billion and...

11.03.2023 100

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Post-flood needs

PAKISTAN suffered from unprecedented rainfall during the 2022 monsoon, which brought with it major disasters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other catchment...

10.02.2023 100

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How do we pay for our food?

PAKISTAN is one of the most agriculturally endowed countries, yet we cannot feed ourselves, let alone aspire to be counted among the world’s major...

27.12.2022 100

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