A number of countries are reviewing current agricultural policy frameworks. As reforms to existing policies and support measures occurred in several countries.There have been institutional and regulatory developments too. Chile’s Ministry of Agriculture created the Ministerial Technical Committee on Climate Change to address the challenges faced by the agriculture sector due to its high vulnerability to weather variability. Costa Rica is reforming its extension services to better link them with the Innovation and Transfer of Agricultural Technology (INTA) with the help of country’s agricultural R&D institution. Viet Nam announced a…
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POLICE COMPLAINT AUTHORITY: ACCOUNTABILITY AND REVIEW
For many years there has been concern about lack of independence in the system of investigating complaints against police officers. The police hold a unique position in society with powers to interfere in the lives of the public and responsibilities to act independently to uphold the law.Inevitably at times this places them in positions of dispute and conflict and will lead to complaints.If citizens are to have confidence in the police service as a whole they must feel that when they complain about individual instances of police misconduct. Their allegations…
Read MoreWATER PRIVATISATION
The 1980s were declared the “UN International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade”. The goal was to ensure that everyone in the world had access to adequate water supply and sanitation within a decade, but the goal was far from met. Access to sufficient water for basic human needs should be considered a human right, and is in some countries secured by the constitution. A highly considerable cost recovery policy has been promoted at the expense of the human right to water. Over the past 20-25 years public utilities have…
Read MoreBILINGUAL BRAIN FOR EDUCATION
Further, early schooling in two languages simultaneously affords young bilingual children a reading advantage and may also dilutes the negative effect of low socioeconomic status on literacy. Whether knowledge of brain functions and learning can be used to benefit education has been a topic of great controversy. This has an understandable worry in the education community that research on brain function is not relevant to education. Be it in monolinguals or bilinguals, in educational neuroscience has the fullest potential to fundamentally advance contemporary educational policy and practice over the…
Read MoreURBAN SPRAWL
In recent decades, urban growth has not been adopted with residents needs. As a result of this process, many lands have been utilized for construction. The word of “Urban Sprawl” means more growth than the usual and what makes it different from urban growth is this excessive nature. Although sprawl is an American phenomenon, but it should be indicated that it’s different by environmental, economic, social and political situations. Cities tend to growth and planned growth is reached while there is an appropriate proportion between urban growth and urban organism. But…
Read More“SOCIAL” MEDIA & YOUTH SOCIALLY
With the global youth population standing at 1.2 billion, the online and social media have become platform to uproar their voice on an issues which they faced. This is now a modern days social platform which significantly used by young people. While 3.2 billion people (43% of the global population) were connected in 2015, Internet is only accessible to 35% of people in developing countries. The words “social media” first started to be used in 2005.Social media not only means for texting the messages but also it means for communication,…
Read MoreSURGICAL STRIKE: A REVIEW
Indian are known as peaceful, tolerant and calm person across the globe. In recent past one year Jammu and Kashmir along with LOC not have peaceful environment as far as terrorism and cross broader ceasefire concerns. Since from last year our soldier are martyred who had serve for nation till last breath of life as If we memories our Uri martyred Ashok Kumar Singh to till date martyred Pawan Singh Surga. In order to counter this attack we did surgical strikes on 29th September 2016.We appreciated that our prime minister narendra…
Read MoreREFORMS AFTER TERROR
Reforming a nation’s security services is an inevitable consequence of large-scale terrorist incidents. The country like India had seen counter terrorism incidents many decades of the years. What the India had learned from those terror incidents and did reforms accordingly is very curious part. But we could see several reforms took place in worldwide after terror attacks in such respective countries.After the 11 September terrorist attacks on Washington and New York led to historic reforms of the US intelligence community.The Illinois Tactical Officers Association hosted the first MACTAC(Multiple Assault Counter…
Read MoreBICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE
In today’s world travel time is the central parameter for the type of transport we deal with. Thats why BICYCLE is an effective tool which give us livelihood city with space diversity and development. Bicycle riding not only boost to less pollution, long life but also creates carbon free air. Till the recent past year 2015, top most five countries which had developed their cities for cycling includes Copenhagen of Denmark, Amsterdam of Netherlands, Utrecht of Netherland, Strasbourg of France, Eindhoven of Netherland.If we can see briefly top five bicyclist…
Read MoreKEY INITIATIVE IN PAYMENT SYSTEM
As since payment instruction are took place after demonetisation of Indian rupees ,the government had took initiatives to develop cashless payments. For this the government developing more suitable key regulator by the resolution and mobile application in order to boost cashless payment in the Indian economy. As since we are seeing these key initiatives for payment regulation in India. The U.K. Payment system Regulator (PSR) has three objectives: to promote competition, to promote innovation, and to ensure that payment systems are developed and operated in the interests of service users.…
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