Monthly Archives: December 2010

Tracking Desertification Using Remote Sensing (Google / mdpi)

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/1/1/ Tracking Desertification in California Using Remote Sensing: A Sand Dune Encroachment Approach Doris K. Lam, Tarmo K. Remmel and Taly D. Drezner Abstract: Most remote sensing studies in deserts focus solely on … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, GIS / remote sensing

Desertification (Google / Goumbook)

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Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.goumbook.com/7340/desertification-is-greatest-threat-to-planet-expert-warns/ Desertification is greatest threat to planet, expert warns « Goumbook UN’s top drylands official says people must be paid via global carbon markets for preserving the soil. Desertification and land degradation is … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification

Desertification (Google / 2dix.com)

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Read at : Google Alert – desertification <http://www.2dix.com/pdf-2011/desertification-pdf.php> Free download pdf: Desertification Source: www.ielrc.org Desertification constitutes one of the international environmental problems whose global … Desertification is a problem that affects a number of regions …

Posted in Desertification

Water conservation projects in China (Google / Digital Journal)

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Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/301770 Facing threat to food supply, China invests in water conservation   After a Greenpeace report concluded that China’s food supply would be inadequate by 2030, the Chinese government has unveiled plans to … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, drought, food / food security, water conservation / harvesting

Bangladesh: Scanty rainfall and excessive extraction of groundwater for irrigation (Google : The Financial Express)

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Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=121152&date=2010-12-28 Water scarcity grave in Barind tract RAJSHAHI, Dec 27 (BSS): Water shortage is gradually becoming grave in the drought-prone Barind area due to scanty rainfall and excessive extraction of groundwater for irrigation … Continue reading →

Posted in drought, irrigation

Madagascar : tar sands projects (Google / The Media Co-op)

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/devastation-madagascar/5524 Devastation, Madagascar France’s Total and US based Madagascar Oil tangle with military governments to push tar sands projects forward by Macdonald Stainsby Total’s proposed tar sands operation in Madagascar is potentially the … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, land / land degradation

The Man Who Stopped the Desert – Video

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Seen at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzah_5y65AU&feature=player_embedded The Man Who Stopped the Desert trailer 1 Narrated by Hugh Quarshie From a harsh, uncompromising land comes a story of hope… YacoubaSawadogo, a peasant farmer from Africa has succeeded where international agencies failed. Over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, drought, land / land degradation

Wild relatives of essential food crops (Science Daily)

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209201938.htm Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: New Global Search to Save Endangered Crop Wild Relatives ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2010) — The Global Crop Diversity Trust has announced a major global search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, … Continue reading →

Posted in biodiversity, Climate / climate change, food / food security

Shower Irrigation Technology to revolutionise farming in ASAL areas (NGO News Africa)

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Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=5707 Kenya: Irrigation technology to boost farming Lives of people living in Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) ravaged by drought and hunger is set to change, thanks to the launch of an innovative and cost-effective irrigation … Continue reading →

Posted in irrigation, Water

Women from developing countries: development and management of water resources (NGO News Africa)

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Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=5732 Grants: Women’s Water Fund Call for Applications The Women’s Water Fund is an initiative of the DHI Group, initially funded by the “King Hassan II Great World Water Prize” presented to Professor Torkil Jønch Clausen of … Continue reading →

Posted in Water, water management