I must admit that in the past I paid too little attention to the issue of land degradation. I won't bore you with the explanations and excuses as to why, just suffice it to say that it was not high enough on my list of priority environment issues. From what I've read in a report* just released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that needs to change. The report also causes me to wonder how much and what kind of attention the DR has given to this issue. The report is part of...
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TemasEtUnam Last month I posted about the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) disturbing report about soil degradation and what it says regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
A couple of weeks later the FAO and several partner organizations — the European Commission, the private Dutch foundation World Soil Information (ISRIC), the private Austria-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese...
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TemasEtUnam I must admit that, just as was the case with deforestation, in the past I paid very little attention to the issue of land degradation. I won’t bore you with the explanations and excuses as to why, just suffice it to say that it was not high enough on my list of priority environment issues.
From what I’ve read in a report* just released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that needs to change.
The report is part of FAO’s Global Assessment of Land Degradation and...
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TemasEtUnam Synopsis in English: The Environmental Policy Council (Copam) of the state with the bulk of Brazil’s iron and steel manufacturing capacity, Minas Gerais, recently ruled [via what they call a binding "Normative Deliberation" (Deliberação Normativa- DN)] that certain iron and steel making wastes can be utilized as fertilizer in eucalyptus plantations in that state. Certain fine dust from air pollution control equipment in steel mills — known in Brazil as “pó de balão” — is...
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Jonathan Lynch a professor of plant nutrition in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has worked with colleagues around the world to develop soybean plants with better root systems that produce better yields in low phosphorus soils. Now he is using the knowledge gained from working soybean root system to develop corn varieties that are more efficient at taking up nitrogen fertilizer. A different but related problem has recently motivated Lynch to turn his attention to the roots of...
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I must admit that in the past I paid too little attention to the issue of land degradation. I won't bore you with the explanations and excuses as to why, just suffice it to say that it was not high enough on my list of priority environment issues. From what I've read in a report* just released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that needs to change. The report also causes me to wonder how much and what kind of attention the DR has given to this issue. The report is part of...
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TemasEtUnam Last month I posted about the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) disturbing report about soil degradation and what it says regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
A couple of weeks later the FAO and several partner organizations — the European Commission, the private Dutch foundation World Soil Information (ISRIC), the private Austria-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese...
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TemasEtUnam I must admit that, just as was the case with deforestation, in the past I paid very little attention to the issue of land degradation. I won’t bore you with the explanations and excuses as to why, just suffice it to say that it was not high enough on my list of priority environment issues.
From what I’ve read in a report* just released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that needs to change.
The report is part of FAO’s Global Assessment of Land Degradation and...
Read Full Story
TemasEtUnam Synopsis in English: The Environmental Policy Council (Copam) of the state with the bulk of Brazil’s iron and steel manufacturing capacity, Minas Gerais, recently ruled [via what they call a binding "Normative Deliberation" (Deliberação Normativa- DN)] that certain iron and steel making wastes can be utilized as fertilizer in eucalyptus plantations in that state. Certain fine dust from air pollution control equipment in steel mills — known in Brazil as “pó de balão” — is...
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Jonathan Lynch a professor of plant nutrition in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has worked with colleagues around the world to develop soybean plants with better root systems that produce better yields in low phosphorus soils. Now he is using the knowledge gained from working soybean root system to develop corn varieties that are more efficient at taking up nitrogen fertilizer. A different but related problem has recently motivated Lynch to turn his attention to the roots of...
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