Resources Tagged: Environmental Aspects
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Through sustained agricultural food production using ducks, fish, and crops this experiment sets out to be a means to love the poor. A system was built where ducks, fish, and crops could feed off each other's wastes. The plants and ducks grew well but there was not enough oxygen for the fish.
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In this volume, the authors propose a global strategy to restore food security and a budget to implement it. Their global food security budget calls for stepped-up expenditures on both sides of the food/population equation. It includes investments not only to provide family planning services to...
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Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his own concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning...
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The first part of this volume reviews the current shrimp farming industry in China, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and Ecuador. In the stock quality section of this volume, high health shrimp systems, potential for genetic improvement of farmed stocks, and probiotic manipulation of hatchery...
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This report is one of a series detailing results from the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, a system-wide initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The programs seeks to reconcile agricultural production and development with mitigation of the adverse...
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This report covers the contractual requirement of ASB to the Global Environment Facility to meet Goal2 "Assessment of the impact on biodiversity of different land uses" as outlined in the aims and objectives of Phase 2. It also meets the broader goals of the the ASB consortium to explore the...
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1995-07-01 This book describes the necessity of properly recycling human waste to maintain fertility of food producing soils. This book explores potential ways to do this while keeping in mind that recycling human waste can be very dangerous. 164 pages, illustrated
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Agroforestry -- the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape -- is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry...
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The world is witnessing major shifts in dietary patterns and--in parallel--a signficant threat to agricultural biodiversity. The implications for human health and the resilience of our food systems are far reaching. As this paper shows, these two phenomena are interconnected. It calls for action...
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2018-01-01 The papers included in this special issue cover a broad range of aspects ranging from genetics and breeding to crop production in the field. Climate change, intensified agriculture, modifications of land use, or pollution are often accompanied by larger fluctuations including extreme events. The...