resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @ideas4sust @JamilaHaider Here us the link to paper http://t.co/KE174yxhae in Revue d’ethnoécologie (paper is in English) May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @drk75 Sounds very interesting! Hope you make good progress. May 24, 2013
Tag Archives: agriculture
Montpellier Panel – Growth with Resilience: Opportunities in African Agriculture
The Montpellier Panel, a group of experts from the fields of agriculture, sustainable development, trade, policy, and global development chaired by Gordon Conway from UK’s Imperial College, have a new report ‘Growth with Resilience: Opportunities in African Agriculture’. The report looks at … Continue reading
An agroecological paradigm shift in agricultural development
Below is a guest post from my colleague Thomas Hahn, an institutional economist and Assoc. Professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. On March 8, 2011, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food , Olivier De Schutter, delivered his … Continue reading
Modernist agricultural diversity
Agricultural Fields near Perdizes, Minas Gerais, Brazil from NASA EOS The visual diversity of the field forms is matched by the variety of crops: sunflowers, wheat, potatoes, coffee, rice, soybeans, and corn are among the products of the region. While … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged agriculture, Brazil, landscape, NASA Earth Observatory
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Water Footprint in Food Production
By Max Troell New studies that focus on the emerging issue of water usage in agriculture have been released. Researchers from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, have provided a comprehensive account of the global green, blue and grey water … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services
Tagged agriculture, blue water, footprint, green water, grey weater, University of Twente
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Nile Delta at Night
Nile River Delta at Night from NASA’s EOS image of the day. They write: The Nile River and its delta look like a brilliant, long-stemmed flower in this astronaut photograph of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea, as seen from the International … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Visualization
Tagged agriculture, irrigation, NASA EOS, Nile, Nile Delta, river, urban
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Syr Darya river meanders
Beautiful pictures from NASA EOS showing paleo and historic river meanders in the floodplain of the Syr Darya River in Kazakstan.
What’s driving current food prices?
New Scientist interviewed food policy researchers Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun from IFPRI about current rise in food prices and they blame financialization of commodity markets: Is this another crisis like the one we had in 2008? Not quite. … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics
Tagged agriculture, commodities, finance, food prices, IFPRI, Joachim von Braun, Maximo Torero
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Phosphorus dynamics – mining vs. recycling
Phosphorus is essential for sustaining humanity, because it is essential nutrient for producing food, and it is often a limiting nutrient for plant growth. Unlike nitrogen, it cannot be fixed from the air, and must be either recycled or mined. … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services
Tagged agriculture, Arno Rosemarin, FAO, IFDC, Jim Elser, phosphate, Phosphorus
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Satoyama – a Japanese cultural landscape
Many parents of small children will have seen Miyazaki’s classic animated film My Neighbour Totoro about Totoro, a forest spirit, who befriends two young girls. Totoro inhabits a beautiful agricultural landscape known as Satyoyama. Satoyama is a Japanese agricultural landscape … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, CBD, cultural landscape, Japan, Kyoto journal, Nagoya, Satoyama, Totoro
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Positive and negative externatilities of Bt corn
Evolution of resistance to Bt pesticides is a negative externality of Bt crops, but a recent paper in Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.1190242) has found that immediate pest control on non-Bt crops is a large positive externality. The Bt corn growers also … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Bt corn, evolution of resistance, maize, W. D. Hutchison
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