Launch of New Alliance to Combat Land Degradation in Africa
AllAfrica.com Tue, 25 Oct 2005 9:19 AM PDT
With about 65 percent of Africa's population affected by land degradation, and over 3 percent of agricultural GDP lost annually to soil and nutrient loss in Sub-Saharan Africa, a new partnership - TerrAfrica - the largest of its kind to address land degradation and increase sustainable land management throughout the region was announced at the seventh session of the UN Conference of the Parties |
Dutch design lets homes float on the floodwaters
USA Today Tue, 25 Oct 2005 3:57 PM PDT
After hurricane Katrina flooded the Gulf Coast, many U.S. hydrologists, architects, and city planners looked to the Netherlands for water-wise guidance. Some Dutch architects are designing ways to live on, instead of fighting against, the rising tide. |
Water Cost Pits Residents Against Dupont, Officials
RedNova Wed, 26 Oct 2005 1:45 AM PDT
By JOHN LANTIGUA Palm Beach Post Staff Writer It's like living next to a haunted house. Residents in the Mapp Road North area here say worrisome phenomena emanate from the 13-acre property that was once the Loxahatchee Nursery. |
FFA maps out plan for Wickland agritourism site
The Kentucky Standard Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:17 PM PDT
It’s a big plan, but one several local students and adults hope becomes a reality. Students and advisors with the Nelson County FFA program want to turn the Wickland estate into a fully operational agritourism site. |
Defra plans mass cull of poultry if avian flu hits UK
Guardian Unlimited Wed, 26 Oct 2005 1:02 AM PDT
A mass cull of poultry in the UK is being prepared by Defra officials in meetings with some of the main agricultural firms involved in the clean up and disposal of hundreds of thousands of cattle, pig and sheep carcasses during the foot and mouth epidemic. |
Canadian company expands inoculant products to the U.S.
Prairie Star Tue, 25 Oct 2005 1:07 PM PDT
A Saskatoon, SK company, Philom Bios, has expanded into the United States with new uses for inoculants. Producers here know that a good quality inoculant is needed when soybeans are introduced to an area, but Philom Bios takes that same concept a step farther. |
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