And this is the tropics.

We are approaching the tropics.

Imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics.

ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics

ICRISAT International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics

One just doesn't survive and have TB in the tropics.

I told you, you can only get malaria in the tropics.

I have. I've dug ditches in the stinking heat of the Tropics.

It lives throughout the tropics, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, into the Pacific.

Salmon sharks go down to the tropics to pup and come into Monterey.

It was the 'El Dorado', splendor of a wild nobility of the tropics

Sustainable Management of Soil Resources in the Humid Tropics, by Rattan Lal, UNU Press

Maintain the radiosonde network, and expand it into areas with inadequate coverage, especially the tropics.

That's as bizarre as finding that the Antarctic on the Earth is hotter than the tropics.

I tore into my trunk to see what I had that was suitable for the tropics.

7. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (CGIAR ICRISAT).

Now most pollinators that we think about are insects, but actually in the tropics, many birds and butterflies pollinate.

Dr. Hardy thinks it might be a bit of malarial fever... He caught when he was in the tropics.

October can see some intense temperature swings across the U.S. as the Arctic gets cooler, but the tropics remain quite warm.

The Fragile Tropics of Latin America Sustainable Management of Changing Environments, edited by Toshie Nishizawa and Juha I. Uitto, UNU Press

9 T. Nishizawa and J. I. Uitto (eds.), The Fragile Tropics of Latin America Sustainable Management of Changing Environments (UNU Press, 1995).

Provide financial support to continue existing long term profiling of ozone, and to enhance these measurements in data sparse areas, particularly in the tropics.

(ii) Regional Coordination Centre for Research and Development of Coarse Grains, Pulses, Roots and Tuber Crops in the Humid Tropics of Asia and the Pacific

And it's the best thing and the most nutritious and refreshing thing you can drink on a hot day in the tropics, so I said sure.

So this is the combination where we have all this genetic potential in the tropics, which is still unexploited, and doing it in combination with technology.

32. UNESCO and UNU, together with the Third World Academy of Sciences, promoted the South South Cooperation Programme on Environmentally Sound Socio Economic Development in the Humid Tropics.

One thing I want to point out is that underneath these live epiphytes, as they die and decompose, they actually construct an arboreal soil, both in the temperate zone and in the tropics.

It has strengthened cooperation with the International Crops Research Institute in Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) through the preparation of Memorandums of Understanding with the two entities.

WMO will continue to provide satellite based information on volcanic ash, tropical cyclones and other severe weather hazards, in particular in the tropics, which is critical for enhancing the safety, regularity and efficiency of aviation operations.

Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) economic activities of women in pastoral and agropastoral societies in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia conventional dam management of floodplain rivers in the dry tropics forestry in grazing systems.

9. It is recognized that most of the world s plant biodiversity lies in cultivated and semi cultivated lands in the tropics and subtropics an area many times larger than can be effectively protected through government controls.

In the tropics, raindrops are not formed from ice crystals, which is the case in the temperate zones, you need the trees with unclear , chemicals that come out of the leaves of the trees that initiate the raindrops.

193. UNESCO and UNU, together with the Third World Academy of Sciences, promote the South South Cooperation Programme on Environmentally Sound Socio Economic Development in the Humid Tropics, within which a workshop was organized in December in Yunnan Province, China.

81. A joint initiative of UNU, UNESCO and the Third World Academy of Sciences, the South South Cooperation Programme for Environmentally Sound Socio Economic Development in the Humid Tropics was established in 1992 following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.

Cooperation is continuing with the ESCAP Statistics and Natural Resources Division, the UNDP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, ICIMOD, the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics and the International Rice Research Institute.

A programme has been launched by one other country with the support of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Programme for Arid Land Crops (IPALAC) in order to develop new farming methods and practices in arid areas.

The countries most vulnerable to such changes small island developing States, coastal nations with large numbers of people living in low lying areas, and countries in the arid and semi arid tropics and subtropics are least able to protect themselves. They also contribute least to the global emissions of greenhouse gases.

Likewise, over the last four decades, improved breeding methods, higher quality feed, and better veterinary care have more than doubled average milk production worldwide. Nevertheless, regional discrepancies remain massive cows in the Netherlands can produce roughly 9,000 liters of milk annually, while Zebu cattle in the tropics produce only about 300 liters.

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is reviewing a project proposal entitled Dates for the Sahel Supporting Sahelian countries in combating poverty through date palm cultivation and youth employment submitted by the UNCCD secretariat on behalf of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal).

Mention is also made of partnership agreements with the major international agricultural research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) specializing in arid and semi arid zones, such as the International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

It deteriorates so quickly in the tropics that we've had to put this special vaccine monitor on every single vial so that it will change very quickly when it's exposed to too much heat, and we can tell that it's not a good vaccine to use on a child it's not potent it's not going to protect them.

Atalanta Village (United States of America) Bellur Community Development Project (India) Centre de Développement Communautaire Integral (Democratic Republic of the Congo) CeLuAn (Brazil) El Centro Hispano (United States of America) Fundación Tropics (Colombia) MACHARITA (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Revolving Loan Fund (Ukraine) SINTRAL (Ecuador) Sustainable Livelihoods (Indonesia) Unique Friends Saving Cooperative (Nigeria) Yayasan Tambuhak Sintra (Indonesia).

(i) UNEP is undertaking collaborative activities with other entities, including the Statistics Division of ESCAP, the UNEP regional office for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the International Rice Research Institute, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics

The project, which is being implemented through GRID Arendal in Norway, is helping to enhance the bilateral cooperation between the GRID facilities and CGIAR centres in various regions, such as the cooperation between GRID Bangkok and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and between GRID Nairobi and the International Council for Research in Agroforestry.

In order to further the involvement in the UNCCD process of organizations that deal with agricultural productivity and commodity development in developing countries, and that may thus contribute to the development of economic activities in drylands, the secretariat has sought to strengthen its relationship with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and has created a new partnership with the Common Fund for Commodities.