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Tag Archives: city
Invest More in Agriculture Not Industries
Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
A very appropriate theme when Africa is rising, was one of my first thoughts. Participants were researchers, academics, policymakers from the UN, AU, governments and NGOs as well as people like me who…
Posted in agriculture
Tagged Africa, Asia, city, development, Green Revolution, land grab, politics, poverty, prosperity, rural, smallholder, young person
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The homogenisation and globalisation of diets
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that some 75% of the diversity of cultivated crops was lost during the 20th Century and, by 2050, we could lose…
Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture, human health, money and trade
Tagged Africa, America, Asia, cassava, city, climate, conservation, crop, crop diversity, crop variety, development, disease, Europe, Food and Agriculture Organization, food safety, genetic diversity, grain, human, iodine, iron, law, micronutrient, millet, neglected crop, nutrition, pest, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, potato, prosperity, research, rice, rye, seedbank, staple food, sugar beet, sugar cane, sweet potato, trade, tuber, Vitamin A, wheat
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Biocultural refugia
Originally posted on Shonil Bhagwat:
A modern-day sacred natural site: Sancheti organic farm near Pune, India, on mappingthesacred.org Pune, the small town where I grew up, is now a bustling metropolis of 6 million people. In my visit to the city…
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged art, city, conservation, culture, development, family farm, farmer, food, food sovereignty, history, land use, map, organic, peasant, religion, research, smallholder
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Report: The Guide to Climate Change
Originally posted on WORLD STREETS __ A New Mobility Action Plan for 2022:
Source: http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/reports/t Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Climate Change 2013. As one of the defining issues not just of our generation, but of recent human history,…
As livestock farming intensifies in poor countries, so can livestock–and livestock-to-human–diseases
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
The health of people and their farm animals in Kenya and other developing countries are closely linked (photo credit: ILRI/Charlie Pye-Smith). ‘While livestock contribute about 40 per cent of the value of agriculture and forms…
Posted in agriculture, human health
Tagged city, development, disease, emerging disease, farmer, human, intensive, livestock, pollution, poverty, research, tropical disease, veterinary, zoonosis
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Keeping cows in the city, chickens under the bed: ‘The Atlantic’ magazine explores Africa’s urbanization
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Butcher shop in a slum in Kawangare, Nairobi, Kenya (picture on Flickr by Brad Ruggles). It’s not only people who are rapidly urbanizing in Africa: people migrating from rural areas are bringing their livelihoods with…
Posted in agriculture, human health
Tagged city, development, disease, farmer, human, livestock, poverty, zoonosis
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How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?
I recommend this film about human populations. It’s nearly an hour long, but well worth that. I’m grateful to my fellow blogger Tony at naturestimeline for showing it to me.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, human health
Tagged child, city, contraception, development, ecosystem, education, food, history, human, population, poverty, prosperity, water, woman
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India’s Green Revolution:Successes, Failures and Second Green Revolution
Originally posted on Rashid's Blog: An Educational Portal:
In the 1960s, there was concern from the Indian government that the country would not be able to grow enough food to support the ever increasing population, so they put into…
Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture, knowledge transfer
Tagged agroforestry, Asia, cash crop, city, crop, development, dryland, farmer, food, Green Revolution, history, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, poverty, prosperity, rice, rural, technology
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Urban Biodiversity is Important in Modern Cities
Originally posted on Rashid's Blog: An Educational Portal:
Vertical Urban Forest Cities are fast becoming our natural habitat. As of 2005, more people live in urban than in rural areas for the first time in Earth’s history. Urban nature…
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Tagged access to land, biodiversity, city, development, ecosystem, human, poverty, prosperity
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Is Hunting a Blessing or a Curse?: An Interview with Dr. Paul Curtis, Extension Wildlife Specialist
Originally posted on gabbywild:
In today’s blog post we are privileged to receive an expert perspective of hunting/wildlife management in the United States by Dr. Paul Curtis, Department Extension Leader and Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University based in Ithaca,…
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