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  • Award#0748594 - CAREER: Pastoral Management of Open Access: The Emergence of a Complex Adaptive System

    Suggests potential distribution -- and possibly cultural -- models that could be used in our work.
    Note e-mail for PI: Mark Moritz mark.moritz@gmail.com

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    distribution supercomputing challenge small-scale agr cuba applied complexity on 2008-09-14

    • The hypothesis is that this management system is best understood as a case of emerging complexity, in which individual decision-making, coordination of movements among pastoralists, and participation in an information sharing network result in the emergence of a complex adaptive system in which access to and use of grazing resources is managed. The hypothesis will be tested in a multidisciplinary study of pastoral mobility that integrates spatial and ethnographic analyses as well as multi-agent simulations and analytical modeling. The research is critically important for its ecological and theoretical implications. The research will elucidate how these emergent systems work without central coordination to manage rangelands across West Africa, where open access systems are common. The findings from this research can be applied to the management of common property resources worldwide.

  • Battered by Storms, Cuba Uses Ideological Zeal to Lift Spirits and Direct Anger - NYTimes.com

    • But in Cuba, acknowledged for its expertise in hurricane preparedness and response

    • he physical effects of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike have been profound, totaling at least $5 billion, the government says. The storms partly or completely destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and crops in fields from the fertile Pinar del Río Province in the west to Guantánamo in the east, a grave concern in a country that was struggling to feed itself before the hurricanes hit.


      Besides clearing fields of rice, beans, plantains and sweet potatoes, the storms destroyed more than a million eggs and killed half a million chickens.

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  • YouTube - Organic Foods: Backyard Agriculture

    From: cookingupastory
    Added: September 20, 2008
    A simple idea led two women into a thriving new farming enterprise. Build backyard mini-farms for homeowners who want to start growing their own fresh herbs and vegetables lasting throughout most o...

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    on 2008-10-21

  • In eat local movement, Cuba is years ahead | Environment | Reuters

    • In Alamar, the members get a salary and share the garden's profits, so the more they grow, the more they earn. They make an average of about 950 pesos, or $42.75, per month, more than double the national average, Salcines said.
    • Chemical fertilizers were replaced with mountains of manure, and beneficial insects were used instead of pesticides.
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