Aller c'est parti pour un #fil ⬇️ #bricolage, et la thématique qui m'anime actuellement c'est la fabrication d'une structure de #serre en #bambou ! Un projet un peu foufou, dont je ne sais pas sur quoi il aboutira, mais ça me plait bien d'expérimenter, et de partager ça avec vous.
L'objectif, si j'y arrive, ce serait dans un premier temps de me faire une serre à plants, donc une surface relativement modeste (< 50 m2).
No need to clear new land for solar power. Panels can coexist with agriculture, and even help it since many crops thrive in partial shade and/or benefit from water retention under the panels.
“Maize is grown by about 50% of farmers in Tanzania. Maize is also a sun loving plant. So the fact that we had an 11% yield increase in maize [under solar panel arrays] is a phenomenal result,” he said.
If we ate mostly plant based diets, nature would get around 75% of the planet's fertile land back. Our oceans would recover too. Simplest solution for carbon capture, natural world, climate resilience, food chain preservation & biodiversity. A massive step to a sustainable and safer future for humans.
Studies show that shifting to a plant-based food system would release fertile land the size of combining the entire United States, China, the European Union, and Australia.
For those who might not know, following a week after the Russia-Ukraine wheat embargo, there are even bigger and ominous signs hinting at global food insecurity and the catastrophic agricultural crises coming our way.
India last week banned export on all non-basmati rice varieties.
I repeat: EXPORT BAN ON ALL non-basmati RICE varieties.
[Aside: export of basmati variety will continue, the demand for which is relatively small in India when compared to the nearly 15 major varieties of rice (it's home to at least a 1000 varieties) consumed by very large populations everyday(these are the ones which are now banned). Basmati is a "festive" and only occasionally consumed variety in India. It is largely exported to the richer nations, many of whom think it is the only variety of rice from India.]
Why is India banning rice now?
Answer: global warming.
What’s happening in India (and South Asia at large) should both terrify you and wake you up
Here’s more (facts? trivia? bothersome news? how the world actually works?).
En #voyage de découverte de l'#agriculture aragonaise chez un producteur de céréales bio de la province de Zaragoza, #Espagne.
Fil de photos avec ou sans commentaires.
On commence par deux paysages au passage de la frontière entre Arnéguy et Orreaga-Roncesvalles (oui : Ronceveaux et son col sont en Espagne), n'en déplaise aux nostalgiques de l'expression anachronique "de France et de Navarre" (un check géographique et historique s'impose).
On finira cette montée dans la hêtraie et son brouillard.
Contrary to popular dogma, industrial agriculture cannot "feed the world." Below are seven key takeaways from a report comparing the industrial food chain to the smallholder peasant food web.
Peasants are the main or sole food providers to more than 70% of the world’s people, and peasants produce this food with often much less than 25% of the resources — including land, water, fossil fuels — used to get all of the world’s food to the table.
The industrial food chain uses at least 75% of the world’s agricultural resources and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but provides food to less than 30% of the world’s people.
For every $1 consumers pay to industrial food chain retailers, society pays another $2 for the industrial food chain’s health and environmental damages. The total bill for the industrial food chain's direct and indirect cost is 5 times governments’ annual military expenditure.
The industrial food chain lacks the agility to respond to climate change. Its research and development is not only distorted but also declining as it concentrates the global food market.
The peasant food web nurtures 9-100 times the biodiversity used by the industrial food chain, across plants, livestock, fish, and forests. Peasants have the knowledge, innovative energy and networks needed to respond to climate change; they have the operational scope and scale; and they are closest to the hungry and malnourished.
There is still much about our food systems that we don’t know we don’t know. Sometimes, the industrial food chain knows but isn’t telling. Other times, policymakers aren’t looking. Most often, we fail to consider the diverse knowledge systems in the peasant food web.
The bottom line: at least 3.9 billion people are either hungry or malnourished because the industrial food chain is too distorted, vastly too expensive, and — after 70 years of trying — just can’t scale up to feed the world.
It is now illegal in Kentucky to expose the illegal treatment or processing of animals.
When exposing crime is punished, you are governed by criminals.
To clear up some confusion, the red legislature passed this Ag-Gag law, the governor vetoed it, then the legislature overturned the veto, with a few dissenting votes - but not enough to stop the overturn. So the Ag-Gag law is now adopted.
17th-century New England farmers moved a mind-staggering amount of stone to build walls – an estimated 240,000 miles of barricades, most stacked thigh-high and similarly wide.
That’s long enough to wrap Earth 10x at the equator – and is larger in volume than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and the Egyptian pyramids at Giza COMBINED.
And we wonder why plant-based meat substitutes are sometimes more expensive than meat ...
"(from 2014 to 2020) livestock farmers in the EU received 1,200 times more public funding than plant-based meat or cultivated meat groups. In the US, the animal farmers got 800 times more public funding. The amount of public money spent on plant-based alternatives was just $42m (£33m) – 0.1% of the £35bn spent on meat and dairy."
Did you know that Australia is the largest exporter of chickpeas in the world and is responsible for one-third of the world's exports. It is a great crop to grow in low rainfall areas #agriculture
"For the first time there will be a dedicated food day, and #food, #agriculture and #water will be the focus of at least 22 major events during the fortnight of #COP28 talks in Dubai.
For the first time, too, the FAO will outline how food systems must change for the world to stay within the globally agreed goal of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels."
(June 2023) - We estimate the impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on countrywide yields, harvested area, and trade using a triple-differences rollout design that exploits variation in the availability of GM seeds across crops, countries, and time. We find positive impacts on yields, especially in poor countries. Our...
FNSEA, une douce odeur de fumier qui ne sert que la cause d'une mafia.
Depuis quelques jours, les actions de la FNSEA se multiplient devant les préfectures et autres bâtiments institutionnels, donnant parfois lieu à des scènes plutôt cocasses qui finissent sur les réseaux sociaux, comme des bâtiments officiels aspergés de lisier, ou encore des flics attaqués à coup d’oignons ou de pomme de terre.
The suitedness of a crop depends on what it originally evolved for, what it has been bred to do since, what the climate is, what the water needs are...and then what the law & culture are like because if you do not get law & regulation right, people can grow any crop badly and irresponsibly...as long as they can make profit from it. #Agriculture
L'huile de palme a mauvaise réputation en occident car on n'entend parler que de sa culture intensive, de la déforestation qu'elle entraîne, des conditions de travail déplorables dans ce secteur, etc.
Mais il ne faut pas oublier que c'est aussi (et avant tout) un produit agricole traditionnellement employé en Afrique pour la cuisson (bien moins chère que l'huile de tournesol !) et la fabrication de produits de beauté dont le savon de base... #HuileDePalme #Agriculture #AgricultureBio #Afrique
Can I get some follow recommendations? I’m acutely aware that of the people I follow who post about our planet’s systems, most of them are climate people. I’d love to follow more people posting at a #systems level. Y’know, the people who distill down expert knowledge into consumable packets for the rest of us. Think #hydrology/ #freshwater/ #oceans, #biodiversity, #ecology, #biology, #agriculture, #energy, #economics, #geology#planetaryBoundaries … these kind of topics. Boosts appreciated!
Cow poop emits climate-warming methane. Adding red algae may help (www.sciencenews.org)
Adding a type of methane-inhibiting red algae directly to cow feces cut down methane emission from the poop by about 44 percent, researchers report.
National and Global Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops (www.aeaweb.org)
(June 2023) - We estimate the impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on countrywide yields, harvested area, and trade using a triple-differences rollout design that exploits variation in the availability of GM seeds across crops, countries, and time. We find positive impacts on yields, especially in poor countries. Our...