University of Southampton researchers are pioneering a new way of measuring and monitoring the impact of industrial and agricultural development on the environment.
Environment
Jun 21, 2012
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Farm workers swing their sickles through red branches, bundling them up before laying them out in the sunshine to dry.
Environment
Feb 27, 2012
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Farmer trainers should be selected based on their interest and ability to teach others rather than on their successes in implementing farming techniques, shows a new study led by Steve Franzel, a scientist at the World Agroforestry ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2011
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(AP) -- Think of farms and images of tractors and combines come to mind. But what about laptops, smart phones and tablets?
Internet
Aug 26, 2011
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Scientists and peasants combine traditional farming techniques and cutting-edge research to grow food sustainably in the high Andes, where the ecology is rapidly changing.
Environment
Aug 1, 2011
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The United Nations food agency on Monday called for greater use of environmentally sustainable techniques by poor farmers in order to increase crop intensity to feed the world's growing population.
Environment
Jun 13, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Masanori Yamasaki and colleagues from Kobe University in Japan, describe how they analyzed the genomes of several types of rice ...
Massive burning of forests for agriculture thousands of years ago may have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to alter global climate and usher in a warming trend that continues today, according to a new study that ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2009
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