Source: foodsecurity.ac.uk Published: April 18, 2016 Keiran Whitaker Insect farms could recover the true value of wasted organic nutrients, improve local food security and assist in environmental protection, says Keiran Olivares Whitaker of Entocycle. Agriculture is...
Source: communitycarbontrees.org Published: April 6, 2017 Association Community Carbon Trees are community-based nonprofit reforestation projects. We sprout over 100 diverse tropical rainforest trees in two rainforest nurseries. Saplings are carefully transported and...
Source: english.cas.cn Published: July 14, 2016 Rubber monoculture (above). Rubber + cocoa, rubber + tea, rubber + coffee agroforestry systems (from L to R, below) (Images by WU Junen) YUAN Linlin Rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) have great economic and social value...
Source: deccanherald.com Published: July 26, 2010 Agarwood, a high value commercial crop native to India, enjoys a good demand in both national and international markets. Planters in Malnad have taken to agar cultivation in a big way, writes Chethana Dinesh M L Murthy...
Source: rappler.com Published: January 26, 2016 Pia Ranada GUINAYANGAN, Philippines – Rizal and Renida Marjes’ backyard reminded me of a wild version of the vegetable and fruit stalls in my neighborhood grocery. Like those well-lit stalls, produce was presented...
Source: modernfarmer.com Published: November 21, 2016 Stephanie Watson at Flickr Dan Nosowitz Coffee is almost exclusively grown in very hot climates – the top producing countries are in South America, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. Coffee needs those warm...
Source: ecology.com Published: April 12, 2016 According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), just twelve crops provide 75 percent of the world’s food. Three of these crops, rice, maize, and wheat contribute to nearly 60 percent of the protein and...
Source: climatecolab.org Published: June 15, 2016 by ClimateRe Pitch Reducing Methane Emission While Enhancing Rice Farmers’ Resilience to Climate Change Click here to watch “Reducing methane emissions from rice farming”: https://youtu.be/gkQj4V8VsAY The rice farmers...
Source: resilience.org Published: September 23, 2016 Photo credit: CC BY 2.5, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8433090 By Erika Styger, originally published by Patterns of Commoning When the rainy season came early to the highlands of Madagascar in 1983, the...
Source: sri.ciifad.cornell.edu Published: March 22, 2017 SRI-Rice ONLINE and its associated social networking sites are maintained by the SRI International Network and Resources Center (SRI-Rice) at Cornell University. SRI-Rice ONLINE contains the most comprehensive...
