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Tag Archives: agriculture
Concept of borders
Each human may have an idea of their own space, and a sense of where they draw their border concept lines. A person may stand too close to us and we will say ‘”don’t crowd me” or “get out of … Continue reading
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself,” Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote in 1937 following catastrophic dust storms and flooding in the United States. He was right. Soil deserves respect. A medium for plant growth, a source of nutrients, a … Continue reading
Posted in anthropocene
Tagged agriculture, animals, carbon capture, climate change, fertilizer, food security, insects, land protection, life, organic, soil, survival
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Freshwater availability shrinking as we make perverse decisions
Globally, around 80 percent of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture. Out of all the water covering the earth, only 2 percent is fresh. That remaining 10 to 20 percent is set aside for industry. Urban Africa, with … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, climate warming, drought, famine, freshwater, glacier melt, industry, lake algae blooms, lake shrinking, lakes, rivers
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Redirecting floodwater into aquifer
For some years now the pattern of drought followed by flooding is experienced in many countries. Serious reduction in water levels in aquifers causes drinking water shortages. It is therefore necessary to build a system which directs flood waters into … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, aquifers, california, climate change, dams, drinking water, drought, Farming, food supply chains, hydrology, livestock, Mexico City, rivers, wildlife, world drought, world food
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Agricultural solutions
I have just watched a Euronews coverage of how enterprising solutions have enabled Algerian farmers to utilise the water table below the desert and renewable electricity to grow potatoes and other foods in specially cultivated areas. Watch at: https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/27/from-sand-to-spuds-how-algeria-galvanised-its-agricultural-sector This … Continue reading
Covid 19 as many countries fight wildfires
As we continue to see the virus take its toll, watching the awful numbers at https://worldometer.pro, there is a background of other disasters for human to grapple with at the same time, such as the earth heating to unbelievable temperatures. … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, agriculture, angola, Arctic, australia, climate change, co2 emissions, covid 19, mediterranean, Russia, South America, the americas, unprecedented, wildfires
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Exploitation of food industry workers: Covid 19 highlights their plight
We know how we get our food to our table. To get it cheaply we rely on exploited workers. The economics of the food industry needs analysing whilst it is under the spotlight of Covid 19. Note suggestions for us … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, covid 19, food industry economics, human and labour rights, migrant workers, persecution, produce, racism
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The cooling of the earth and help and hindrance of glaciation
The dinosaurs never saw snow or ice, the planet had not cooled during their existence. Their fate was sealed when a rogue space rock the size of a city struck Earth 66 million years ago, near what is now the … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Alaska, Canada, far East Russia, glacial retreat, glaciers, inuit, Kenya, Peru, pleistocene, Siberia, woolly mammoth
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Flooding in the Americas: Neolithic farming
Starting about 12,900 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was abruptly gripped by centuries of cold, as mentioned in previous blogs, the Younger Dryas. Scientists have suggested this chill helped wipe out most of the large mammals in North America as … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, cahokia, corn, Farming, flood plains, flood protection, maize, mesoamerica, mississippi, staple diet, UNESCO
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