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23 Jul 09
Nutrient decline in cereals - National Rural News - Grains and Cropping - General - Stock & Land
Study shows that nutrient decline in wheat started in the 1960's.
12 Jul 09
Earth, observed - The Big Picture - Boston.com
stunning imagery.....
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The Earth Observatory is a website run by NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science Office (EOSPSO). Bringing together imagery from many different satellites and astronaut missions, the website publishes fantastic images with highly detailed descriptions, feature articles and more. Gathered here are some standout photographs from the collections in the Earth Observatory over the past several years. For more images and information, please visit the Earth Observatory site itself. (23 photos total)
New viral disease threatens region’s cassava farming
This article is about cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). One interest point is the claim that CBSD is often found in varieties that are resistant to cassava mosaic disease (CMD).
07 Jul 09
Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Interesting article on the benefits of interval training....
..:: Archivo General de CentroAmerica ::.. - Presentación
This website has general documents about Central America. Could be useful for historical and social science research and development projects.
06 Jul 09
CMD and CBSD monitoring with cell phones
This should be followed to see how it comes out. They are using cell phones to monitor cassava viruses in the Great Lakes region, Africa.
25% of pre-monsoon crops have failed in Saurashtra - Rajkot - Cities - The Times of India
Discusses an example of changing crops when rains have not yet arrived. Instead of cotton and groundnut - sesame.
30 Jun 09
allAfrica.com: Uganda: Farmers Battle Drought - Many Returnees in North Struggle to Rebuild Their Farms (Page 1 of 1)
story about drought and markets in northern uganda...
18 Jun 09
Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier -- Rodrigues et al. 324 (5933): 1435 -- Science
Discusses similar pattern to what I have seen in Peru.
16 Jun 09
http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1001:50943::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1006,77162
According to this report, CMD is back in West Africa and threatens to do serious damage
05 Jun 09
How Carbon Markets Can Make Both Economic and Ecological Sense - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
Discuss example from Indonesia. Mixes carbon and biodiversity environmental service.
04 Jun 09
Tribes in Peru to get $0.68/acre for protecting Amazon forest
Note on plan to compensate indigenous groups to conserve rainforests in Peru
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The $1.70-per-hectare figure is low by international standards, especially given the value of Amazonian land. Under a proposed mechanism that compensates countries for reducing deforestation (REDD), forest land could be worth $800 or more per hectare for its carbon (225 tons of carbon/ha), depending on its level of threat. Forests in areas of high deforestation would be compensated at a higher rate than inaccessible forests at low-risk of development
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Peru — home to the fourth largest extent of tropical rainforests after Brazil, Congo, and Indonesia — has historically had one of the lowest annual deforestation rates in the Amazon basin, but forest loss has been increasing in recent years due to illegal logging, mining, agriculture, and expansion of road networks, including the paving of a highway that provides access to a remote and biologically-rich region in southeastern part of the country. In 2005 — the most recent year for which data is available — at least 150,000 hectares of forest was lost, while a similar area was degraded through logging and other activities.
Latin American Knowledge Harvester: Home
University of New Mexico site that has lots of metadata and links to abstracts and other information sources.....
02 Jun 09
Agriculture and Climate Change - IFPRI 2020 Vision Focus Briefs
Lots of good to stuff to read here.
21 May 09
What You Don’t Know Makes You Nervous - Happy Days Blog - NYTimes.com
I think this is right on target. Uncertainty is the greatest obstacle to happiness.
20 May 09
Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening - NYTimes.com
Evolutionary psychology take on consumerism
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difference between “rational” and “emotional”
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“Those features can be talked about in ways that will display my general intelligence to potential mates and friends, who will bow down before my godlike technopowers, which rival those of Iron Man himself.”
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18 May 09
Monitor Online | Business & Technology | Death of research in Uganda
Discusses many of the issues facing NARS in Africa -- trial sites, seed systems, disearch outbreaks, etc
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