Silvopasture Systems: A Sustainable Approach to Livestock and Forestry Integration In recent years, there has been a growing interest in sustainable …
Silvopasture: A Sustainable Fusion of Livestock and Forestry
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Community Agriculture Alliance: Can land management principals to avoid desertification be applied here?
Lyn HallidayCommunity Agriculture Alliance – https://www.steamboatpilot.com/opinion/guest-commentary/community-agriculture-alliance-can-land-…
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‘Terrifying’: Rapid Loss of Biodiversity Placing Global Food Supplies at Risk of ‘Irreversible Collapse’
By Julia Conley, Staff writer, Common Dreams “This should be at the top of every news bulletin and every government’s agenda around the world.” A …
‘Terrifying’: Rapid Loss of Biodiversity Placing Global Food Supplies at Risk of ‘Irreversible Collapse’
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THE UNIVERSAL SOLUTION for alleviating malnutrition and hunger
by Prof. Dr. Willem VAN COTTHEM (Ghent University, Belgium) Here is MY UNIVERSAL SOLUTION to the world problem of hunger and malnutrition of children…
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“Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature”
“The world’s forests will be restored not by trying to recreate the past, but by providing the space for such forests to find their own new future.”…
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Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download
by Erik Hoffner on 15 February 2023 – https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/trees-with-edible-leaves-can-boost-human-nutrition-new-book-free-download/ …
Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download
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Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download
by Erik Hoffner on 15 February 2023 – https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/trees-with-edible-leaves-can-boost-human-nutrition-new-book-free-download/ …
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Digital soil map provides information for crop productivity and soil health
“The private sector can utilize the acquired soil information to build interactive and user-friendly mobile apps that can provide soil properties and fertilizer-related information to farmers as part of commercial agri-advisory extension services,” she said.
“These soil maps will not only help to increase crop yields, but also the nutritional value of these crops, which in return will help solve problems of public health such as zinc deficiency in Nepal’s population,” explained Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, principal scientist at CIMMYT.
By the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
A digital soil map for Nepal launched in 2021 provides access to location-specific information on soil properties for any province, district, municipality or a particular area of interest. The interactive map provides information useful for new crop- and site-specific fertilizer recommendations for the country.
Produced by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), in collaboration with Nepal Agricultural Research Council’s (NARC) National Soil Science Research Center (NSSRC), the digital soil map is the first publicly available soil map in South Asia that covers the entire country.
At the official launch event for the map in February 2021 the Prime Minister of Nepal, K.P. Sharma Oli highlighted the benefits the map would bring to support soil fertility management in the digital era in Nepal.
CIMMYT, NSSRC and Department of Agriculture’s Centre for Crop Development and Agrobiodiversity Conservation…
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#2) Gardening and Compost–Soil Health
When I was a kid we had a large garden in the back yard, big enough to grow most of what we needed to eat for the whole summer. My dad rototilled the…
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Sustainable campaign against desertification
https://punchng.com/sustainable-campaign-against-desertification/ Nnaemeka Onyeka Obiaraeri – 6 September 2021 The other day, the Governor of Yobe …
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Chinese researchers develop new machine for desert control
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2021-02/05/content_77190102.htm
Chinese researchers have developed a walk-behind paving machine that can more efficiently “plant” straw nets in desert areas to combat desertification.
The machine has proved capable of reducing the high labor costs involved in the deployment of checkerboard barriers, which are large straw nets placed on the surface of deserts to reduce the wind speed and fix moving sand dunes, according to the Desert Control Research Institute of Gansu Province, which developed the machine.
This checkerboard barrier technique is widely used in China’s arid inland areas, especially to protect traffic arteries from the incursion of deserts.
The institute said the machine makes the hand-planting process mechanized, by digging trenches and paving straw through its drive system, and can be used in varied terrain. The efficiency of the…
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AfDB pledges $6.5bn to help Sahel countries fight desertification
The Great Green Wall
By Ronald Lwere Kato Last updated: 12/01 – https://www.africanews.com/2021/01/12/afdb-pledges-6-5bn-to-help-sahel-countries-fight-desertification/
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The African Development Bank will mobilize $6.5 Billion to support efforts by countries in the Sahel.
Launched in 2007 by the African African Union, the Great Green Wall is a concerted attempt to roll back the Sahara desert.
It seeks to help communities in the Sahel and Sahara regions to mitigate and adapt to climate change but also to improve food security.
AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina made the pledge during the OnePlanet summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday.
“The future of the Sahel region depends on the Great Green Wall. Without the Great Green Wall, the Sahel region as we know it may disappear”, said Adesina.
The Great Green Wall initiative aims to plant an 8,000 km long and 15 km wide…
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Great Green Wall: How funding can help Sahel fight desertification again
Fast track efforts to restore degrading land ?
Great Green Wall project on a slow track due to funds crunch; President of France Emmanuel Macron announces $14 billion to scale up work
Published: Wednesday 13 January 2021 – https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/africa/great-green-wall-how-funding-can-help-sahel-fight-desertification-again-75034
More than 13 years after the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative was started by the African Union to address desertification, land degradation and climate change in the Sahel region, the project had hit a wall due to funds crunch. The project aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded landby 2030; only four million hectares had been restoredbetween 2007 and 2019.
GGW, as conceived by 11 countries located along the southern border of the Sahara and their international partners, is aimed at limiting the desertification of the Sahel zone.
The GGW countries, according to a United Nations report released September 2020, need to speed up the current pace of…
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Donors pledge $14 billion to help Africa combat desertification
In a major boost to complete the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative in Africa, development banks and governments pledged a fund of more than $14 billion.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced the new funds at the One Planet Summit on Monday. Donors had set a target of $10 billion for new funding, but generous pledges helped in gathering additional investment.
Covering the entire 8,000 kilometer stretch of the African continent, the GGW is being built to combat land degradation and control desertification in the region. The project completed nearly 20 percent of its work last year, creating thousands of green jobs for local communities through land restoration work.
“The mobilization of this additional funding through an innovative approach will certainly contribute to the achievement of the Great Green Wall goals, which aim by 2030, at the restoration of 100 million hectares of degraded land,” said Mohamed Cheikh…
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This can be an example for smallholder farmers : don’t buy seeds, but keep them when eating fruits
A message from Casie FLANAGAN:
Potted fruit trees🌱🌱🌱
Peach, Nectarines, Apricots, Cherry, and pink Lady Apples.
My boys (and I) love keeping our pips/seeds and replanting them.
We have successfully grown our own 300 fruit trees within the last couple of years.
Why don’t you instead of spending a lot of money ?
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