Monthly Archives: October 2010

Fighting Poverty Through “Microforestry” (Brain Pickings)

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Read at : http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/29/komaza/ KOMAZA: Fighting Poverty Through “Microforestry” By Maria Popova http://vimeo.com/14040516 What 2,000 trees have to do with your weekly mocha frappuccino budget. Deforestation and poverty are two of today’s most pressing socio-environmental problems, but most people don’t … Continue reading →

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The right to food (Food Crisis)

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Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/16818 The right to food: Corporate, foreign gov’t land grab causing hunger in poor countries Democracy Now! | 28 October 2010 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, joins us to … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, land grab

The first step towards a better future: gardening at preschool (Martin Ware)

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For many years we have been spreading the idea that family gardens and shools gardens are the best tools to combat child malnutrition and hunger. Martin WARE (The Potted Vegetable Garden, see former postings) visibly got the message and contributed … Continue reading →

Posted in gardening kids, school gardens

45 private equity firms plan to invest $2 billion in Africa’s agriculture in the next 3 to 5 years

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Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/16790 Private sector interest grows in African farming Wall Street Journal | 28 October 2010 By CAROLINE HENSHAW Mounting concern over security of food supplies is spurring a wave of private-sector investment in Africa that many hope … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security, land grab

More people, more trees (IIED)

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Read at : http://www.iied.org/sustainable-markets/blog/more-people-more-trees?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duesouth+%28Due+South%3A+IIED+Blog%29 More people, more trees Submitted by Camilla Toulmin on Fri, 29/10/2010 – 08:37 VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7zRp4fnIM&feature=player_embedded#! More people, more trees. This is the name of a new video, part-funded by IIED, which shows two decades of progress … Continue reading →

Posted in afforestation, reforestation

$1.1 million pilot program to create an urban farm in Cleveland (City Farmer News)

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Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/28/new-1-1-million-program-to-create-urban-farms-in-clevelands-kinsman-neighborhood/ New $1.1 million program to create urban farms in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood Linked by Michael Levenston http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/10/new_program_to_create.html Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — By next fall, a group of fledgling farmers could be harvesting … Continue reading →

Posted in urban agriculture/farming

Degraded Rivers, Potential Erosion Solutions and Unsustainable Farming Practices (Google / Engineering News)

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Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/degraded-rivers-and-unsustainable-farming-add-to-soil-erosion-issues-2010-10-29 Degraded rivers, unsustainable farming catalysts for soil erosion 90% of soil erosion problems can be tackled through maintaining soil cover By: Eleanor Seggie Western Cape rivers are generally degraded and unstable, said … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, drought, erosion

Amazon Rainforest Drought (Google / Newspublic)

Posted on October 29, 2010 by

Read at : Google Alert – drought   Video: Amazon Rainforest Drought Worst in 100 Years Below is a video from ITN about the current drought in the Amazon rainforest which has left some rivers at their lowest level in … Continue reading →

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Another tough dry season in Vietnam (Google / Vietnam.net)

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Read at : Google Alert – drought http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/environment/857/another-tough-year-for-drought-and-water-shortage-is-in-the-forecast.html Another tough year for drought and water shortage is in the forecast After suffering from extreme drought and water shortages, bad news was delivered to expect it again in the northeastern and … Continue reading →

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The protein that starts the molecular chain reaction leading to stomata closure responding to drought (Google / R&DMag)

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Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.rdmag.com/News/2010/10/Envrionment-Research-How-Plants-Keep-Their-Mouths-Shut/ How plants keep their mouths shut Using intense beams of x-rays at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, researchers have uncovered the atomic structure of a protein responsible for … Continue reading →

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