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The food crisis in the beginning of year 2008 (April) was triggered by the dramatic escalation in the global food prices, that had caused hunger, riots and hoarding in poor countries.  The crisis had been tackles by world wide actions, both the short term and long term meassures.  The short term measure was to assist the poor countries with rapid financial assisstance by the World Bank, and as such eased the pressure to World Food Programme, a UN agency in feeding around 73 million people in that particular year. The longterm measures were to help developing countries to increase their food production capacity, as well as the continous effort to improve the world trading system. The top rice producers and the april 2008 rice projection as of November 2007, US Dept. of Agriculture data, were as follows: China 129.5 million tonnes India 94.0 Indonesia 35.5 Bangladesh 28.4 Vietnam 23.3 Thailand 18.5 Burma 11.3 Philippines 10.4 Brazil 8.2 Japan 7.9 Source:  Borneo Post, April

PROF. Ir. Frederik Josep Putuhena, MSc, PhD merupakan salah satu professor senior di Fakultas Tehnik Sipil, Universitas Malaysia Serawak. Dia merupakan warga asli Indonesia. Menjadi dosen di Unimas sejak tahun 2002 lalu.“Ketika baru masuk ke Unimas, saya bahkan merupakan satu-satunya professor yang ada di tehnik sipil. Tetapi sekarang sudah terdapat dua orang, kesemuanya masih muda,” ungkap pria yang akrab disapa Putu ini saat ditemui di ruang kerjanya.Pria 58 tahun itu mengkisahkan, setelah lulusan Universitas Indonesia pada 1974, dia bekerja di Departemen Pekerjaan Umum. Kemudian mendapatkan kesempatan mengambil gelar master di Newcastel UponTyne, United Kingdom. Setelah menamatkan pendidikan S-2 pada tahun 1978, selain bekerja sebagai pegawai negeri, dirinya juga berprofesi sebagai dosen di beberapa universitas, diantaranya Universitas Pancasila dan Bina Nusantara. “Saat itu memang terdapat program dari Menteri PU yang mewajibkan pegawainya yang telah mengambil S2 mengajar di pe

Sabah Energy Sdn Bhd (SESB) had committed itself to use the green technology for over 100 MW in the east coast of Sabah. However, the development of 300 MW Coal-fired plant in Lahat Datu is still the best option to provide better electricity to the east coast of Sabah. This statement was given by Baharin Din, the managing director of SESB, as quoted by Borneo Post, April 27, 2010. The current demand in the east coast of Sabah is 220 MW, and expected to grow to 400 MW by 2017. Although they have the east-west grid, the supply of 300 MW from the coal plant is unavoidable. The Environmental Impact Assessment is to be completed at the end of May 2010, and if it is approved the construction will be carried out immediately. It is expected that the first unit of 75 MW plant would be completed by 2013.

Figure 1 Rivers and Points Annual Rainfall at Sabah (After Sabah Water Resources Master Plan, 1995) The best source of information about river basins in Sabah is from the "Sabah Water Resources Master Plan", which can be seen at http://www.did.sabah.gov.my/ . The river basins are can be grouped as those that discharging the flow to the west coast, north coast, and to the east coast. Some rivers that go to west coast are: Sg. Mayog/Babogon Sg. Papar Sg. Padas Some rivers that go to the north coast are: Sg. Bandau Sg. Bangan/Kinorom Sg. Bengkoko/Pitas Some rivers that go to the east coast are: Sg. Liwagu Sg. Kinabatangan Sg. Tawau Sg. Merotai Besar The Figure 1 shows the points annual rainfalls and rivers in Sabah.

The goal of energy development in Indonesia is to increase the access to energy for currently 65 % of 234 million of its population to 90%, by the end of 2020. The plan is by adding extra 10, 000 MW by 2012 from coal energy, and the other is another 10,000 MW from geothermal energy. More information about development of geothermal energy in Indonesia can be found in the PT Pertamina Geothermal at http://www.pgeindonesia.com/ Development of geothermal energy is a strategic move in the energy development in Indonesia since it is a clean energy, and hence reducing the greenhouse gas emission. The head of Indonesian Association Geothermal Association, Surya Darma, as quoted by Borneo Post April 25, 2010, said that "The government's aim to add 4,000 MW of geothermal capacity from existing 1,189 MW, by 2014". One of the biggest obstacles is the cost, where a geothermal plant cost twice compare to a dirty coal-fired power plant. But once established, it can provide the free supp

4.1 Introduction The logical framework approach (LFA) was first adopted by U.S. AID in the early 1970s. The framework provides a set of designing tools that, when used creatively, can be used for planning, designing, implementing and evaluating projects (the entire project cycle). The purpose of LFA is to undertake participatory, objectives-oriented planning that spans the life of project or policy work to build stakeholder's team commitment and capacity, through a series of workshops. The technique requires stakeholders to come together in a series of workshops to set priorities and plan for implementation and monitoring. This achieved by structuring the main elements of project in a matrix (the logical framework) which summarizes the project, highlighting logical linkages between intended inputs, planned activities and expected results and records the underlying assumption. See Figure 4.1, for the content of framework matrix and how to read the LFA. 4.2 Steps in Logic