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Knowing what’s on the land
The Global Land Cover Network (GLCN) exists to bring together all that’s known about what’s covering the land, everywhere there is land to be covered. This very ambitious project involves the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and others. … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer
Tagged climate, data, development, Food and Agriculture Organization, food security, land use, map, planning, sustainable, vegetation
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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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A new invader to eat rice plants?
The Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS) for Britain doesn’t list apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata and P. maculata) as invasive species, but perhaps it should. Apple snails are aquatic. They spread when there’s flooding, when they cling onto larger animals or onto … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture
Tagged alien species, America, apple snail, aquaculture, Asia, crop, data, farmer, flood, gastropod, heliculture, herbivore, invasive species, map, mollusc, nematode, parasite, parasite transmission, pest, pet, plant_monocot, rice, roundworm, snail, vector, waterway
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The first detailed maps of the world’s forests from 2000-2012 (Google Maps)
Originally posted on DESERTIFICATION:
Read at : http://google-latlong.blogspot.be/2013/11/mapping-worlds-deforestation-over-time.html Mapping the world’s deforestation over time We’re excited to announce today that, in a collaboration led by Dr. Matthew Hansen at the University of Maryland, we’ve built the first detailed maps of…
Posted in ecology, knowledge transfer
Tagged arboriculture, conservation, data, ecosystem, forest, habitat loss, history, knowledge, land use, map, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, tree, woodland
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The digital future of infectious disease maps
argylesock says… Maps of infectious diseases have so much potential. I hope livestock, crop and wildlife diseases are being mapped too – if you know that they are, please say so. I’m a bit cautious because when you face a … Continue reading
Posted in human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged crop, data, disease, human, invasive species, knowledge, livestock, map, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, research, technology, wildlife
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Tree of the month: Alder
The moon was full last night. So according to my favourite version of the Ogham ‘tree calendar’, we’re now halfway through the Month of the Alder. You might choose to follow my ‘ogham’ tag for other posts in this series. … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged alien species, ancient woodland, bacterium, bird, bryophyte, catkin, disease, emerging disease, Europe, finfish, flood, flower, forest, fungus, garden, history, indicator species, invertebrate, land reclamation, land use, lichen, mammal, map, mollusc, moss, mould, myth, native species, ogham, pathogen, Phytophthora alni, plant_dicot, seed, seed dispersal, spring, symbiosis, tree, vertebrate, water, waterway, wetland, wildlife, woodland
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For Wales?
Originally posted on Organikos:
The Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha UNESCO biosphere reserve in central Peru. The Welsh funds will help the Ashaninka preserve their forests. Photograph: Nicholas Gill/Alamy “For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the…
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Tagged arboriculture, conservation, finance, forest, logging, map, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, tree, woodland
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Agriculture
Originally posted on GreenSky:
Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technologies are being used all across the world to help attain sustainable agriculture. As per Wikipedia, “Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without…
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Tagged crop, data, land use, landscape, map, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, research, sustainable, technology
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Crop of the month: Parsnip
The moon was full last night so I’m thinking about harvest. You can see other posts in this series by following my ‘harvest’ tag. This month, let’s admire the parsnip. When is the parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) in season here in … Continue reading
Posted in horticulture
Tagged access to land, allotment, carrot, farm, farmer, frost, garden, harvest, history, map, parsnip, plant_dicot, root, staple food, taproot, umbellifer, vegetable
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