Sentences with phrase «on adaptation projects»

Whenever possible, they'd rather wait with spending big money on adaptation projects until there is more certainty about the things to come.»

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Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Currently, Cambodia and IRRI are conducting joint research projects on climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate - resilient rice varieties, remote sensing - based crop monitoring, improvement of farmers» livelihoods, and postharvest technology.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

NCSE is now engaged in an NSF - funded project on creating a Climate, Adaptation, and Mitigation e-Learning (CAMEL) community.

This pattern of adaptation is often seen in tumor cells, according to J. Alan Diehl, Ph.D., the SmartState Endowed Chair in Lipidomics, Pathobiology and Therapy at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and senior researcher on the project.

Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Trostle said four additional federally funded projects, three led by AgriLife Research, are aimed at providing more information for producers on guar in relation to guar agronomics, wheat rotation, plant breeding / adaptation and bioenergy.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

PhD Scholarship: The Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, part of the Unep (Un Environment Program)- DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Partnership, invites applications for a PhD research project focused on technologies for climate change adaptation in the context of sustainable development.

If the subsequent adaptation of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s acclaimed novel Breakfast of Champions failed to capture the essence of the written word, Nolte still managed to offer an impressive performance in the following year's The Golden Bowl.At this point in his career Nolte could certainly be counted on to turn in compelling performances regardless of the project, which made the return of his former demons more tragic than ever.

Guadagnino is still threatening to produce a remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria to be directed by David Gordon Green, and has three other projects on the go, including an adaptation of James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and The Reliable Wife (a period romantic - thriller variation on Mississippi Mermaid about a mail - order bride who turns out to be a scheming vixen)...

Finally, in February 2014, Warner Bros. tapped Andy Serkis to make his directorial debut on the project and things finally seemed to be coalescing, that is until Disney announced its own new live - action adaptation that summer.

Valiant Entertainment has found a director for its big screen supernatural superhero project Shadowman, with THR reporting that Reginald Hudlin (Marshall) has signed on to helm the adaptation, while Adam Simon (showrunner on WGN America's Salem) is set to rewrite the original script by J. Michael Straczynski.

Academy Award ® winner Julia Roberts is attached to star and produce in the project with Semple on board to write the adaptation.

But as it became clear that director Jon Favreau's Jungle Book for Disney was not a colorful, song - filled, «Disney - fied» adaptation but instead a photoreal and somewhat dark take on Kipling's story, Warner Bros. no doubt began to fear that their own project — previously titled Jungle Book: Origins — might be too similar.

James Franco has been on an experimental film kick as of late with his rendition of the classic 1930 Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes...

Universal has passed on Imagine Entertainment's planned adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic, an ambitious and expensive project that calls for a movie trilogy and two television miniseries.

I'm actually a fan of «Chicago» (one of the decade's strongest Best Picture winners, if you ask me), but it's Bill Condon's ingeniously conceived adaptation that did the heaviest lifting on that project and, to my mind, is largely responsible for its success.

Currently, they are in pre-production on a limited series adaptation of the novel, «Today Will Be Different,» by Maria Semple, which has Julia Roberts attached to star, the adult animated series «Amberville,» for Amazon, and «The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,» a Western anthology written and directed by the Coen Brothers, amongst other projects in development.

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

This entire project has my full attention: Pet Sematary is my favorite Stephen King novel, and while the 1989 film was a pretty solid adaptation (King wrote the script himself), there are a lot of details that were left out of the film that could work perfectly in a new take on the material.

Chazelle, who was first linked to the project last fall, will direct the Josh Singer («Spotlight «-RRB-- penned adaptation of James Hansen's biography «First Man: A Life Of Neil A. Armstrong» which chronicles the incredible life of the first man on the moon.

Based on the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne, «Submarine» was and is a beloved property for adaptation (Ben Stiller and his producing partner Stuart Cornfeld are among the project's dozen producers, even though there's no easy - fit on - screen part for the comedian), and it's fairly easy to see why.

The soon - to - be Oscar host is reportedly in talks to take on two directorial projects: an adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying for Fox...

Hollywoodnews.com: Oscar - winning director Sam Mendes is readying two projects in the wake of the Bond 23 stoppage: a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical and an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel «On Chesil Beach.»

But Heyman hasn't forgotten the other highly anticipated fan project he's working on, namely Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first Harry Potter film not be a direct adaptation of one of the books, and the first to have a screenplay written by J.K. Rowling herself.

Before Beauty and the Beast topped the box office with a record - breaking debut this month, Disney was already all - in on their roster of live - action adaptations of their animated classics (check out our rundown of all of the developing projects here).

Liman is finishing a drug film called Mena with Tom Cruise and has several other projects, including the Marvel adaptation Gambit, also on his plate; there's also a planned Edge of Tomorrow sequel, though that's still very early in development.

Shortly after putting an Ian McEwan adaptation on his schedule, Benedict Cumberbatch has lined up yet another literary project.

On May 14, 1948, British film producer Sir Alexander Korda signed a contract with American producer David O. Selznick, allowing his Selznick Releasing Organization the Western Hemisphere rights to four films: a Michael Powell - Emeric Pressburger adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities; The Doctor's Story, to star Joseph Cotten; and two projects for Carol Reed: Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Third Man.

Veep creator Armando Iannucci has lined up another film project, which happens to get another adaptation: According to Variety, he's directing and co-writing a «modern take» on Charles Dickens» David Copperfield.

So, Empire had the good fortune to run into Michael Cera the other day (exactly how you imagine him — very nice, very sweet and shy) and we took the time to grill him on two of his upcoming projects: Edgar Wright's adaptation of ace underground comic, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, in which Cera was cast just recently; and the mooted movie adaptation of the wonderful TV show that first brought him to our attention: Arrested Development.

The original script draft was co-penned by Guillermo del Toro shortly after he made Pan's Labyrinth nine years ago, but the project was put on hold while del Toro worked on a couple films (Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim), a TV series (The Strain), an At the Mountains of Madness adaptation that stalled in pre-production, and The Hobbit before Peter Jackson took over... among other things, that is.

Director Steven Spielberg still has several projects on his dance card, including «Ready Player One,» a big - screen adaptation of a best - selling science - fiction novel, and a drama about the Pentagon Papers with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.

She scored her latest Oscar nomination for novel adaptation Brooklyn, and Saoirse Ronan is lining up another film based on a book for a future project.

Deadline reports that New Regency, through its distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, is in final talks to become the latest co-financier on the project, an adaptation of the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup.

So the savvy move is to get plenty of projects while he can, and he's already signed on to star in the adaptation of the comic book Cowboy Ninja Viking.

Back in the day (2006, to be exact) we reported on Peter Weir signing up to direct the film with a William Broyles Jr script, and we guessed it would step before the cameras long before Weir's other planned project at the time, an adaptation of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

And Margot Robbie, 27, spoke to The Project on Friday, about doing the voice - over for her character Flopsy in the movie adaptation of the classic children's book.

Crimson Peak is Guillermo Del Toro's passion project — the one he has worked on for years (as many as his H.P. Lovecraft adaptation?

Operating on a scale like nothing else on TV, and creatively liberated to play a long game stretching into the future, perhaps no project better distinguishes HBO's status as the leading premium player than David Benioff and D.B. Weiss» meticulous adaptation of George R.R. Martin's fantasy world.

For a while now, the sequel to Mark Millar comic adaptation Wanted has been lost in limbo, unable to find its way as director Timur Bekmambetov concentrated on other projects.

Production designer Alice Normington has worked on various projects set in the Victorian era — a TV movie adaptation of Great Expectations, among others — and stepped into the Edwardian era with great enthusiasm on Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, a film about the early feminist movement in London.

Just a couple of weeks after Gore Verbinski formally turned down the opportunity to direct Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in order to focus on the video game adaptation Bioshock, the project has reportedly hit a major snag.

Following Bigelow's Detroit project, which arrives in theaters on August 4, Annapurna will next produce Richard Linklater's adaptation of Maria Semple's «Where'd You Go, Bernadette.»