(EN PERFECTA SINTONÍA CON LOS PRESUPUESTOS DE
LAS AGRICULTURAS REGENERATIVA Y BIODINÁMICA)
IDEAS REGENERATIVAS DE LA AGRICULTURA II
Agosto 2014
La trofobiosis describe la asociación simbiótica entre organismos allá donde se encuentra el alimento. También explica el resurgir de plagas en cultivos a los que se han aplicado biocidas, causando una mayor dependencia de ellos.
Francis Chaboussou era agrónomo en el Instituto Nacional Francés de Investigación Agrícola. Ha dejado un legado que está transformando como pensamos sobre insectos y agricultura. Sus estudios e investigaciones los realizó en un arco de 50 años. Su libro “Cosechas Sanas: una nueva revolución agrícola” tiene por objetivo explicar las razones que explican el fracaso de fungicidas, insecticidas y especialmente, herbicidas.
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Michael Graham Richard (@Michael_GR)
Science / Climate Change
April 24, 2014
Public Domain Public domain
In our fight against global warming, we have an unlikely ally. Who? The tiny salamanders that roam the forests of most of the world! In North-America, they are actually the most abundant vertebrate, and they eat a lot of insects. This is helpful because this prevents these insects from eating as much of the leaf litter on the forest floor. If this leaf litter is left alone long enough, part of it will turn into humus (just one “m”, not hummus), a process that sequesters carbon in the soil.
Because salamanders eat so many insects, they actually help increase the rate at which forests sequester carbon. How much exactly is what was recently determined in a study that looked for the first time at the impact of our little amphibian friends.
The 2-year study used enclosure in a North California forest to monitor the impact of salamanders of the leaf litter that can be found on the forest floor. At the end of the experiment, the salamander enclosures contained roughly 13% more leaf litter on average than those in enclosures without salamanders. The invertebrate samples show that the salamanders suppressed numbers of beetle and fly larvae, and beetle, ant, and springtail adults.
What does this mean? This is over 170 pounds of extra carbon sequestered thanks to salamanders per forest acre over the course of a single rainy season. That’s a lot! And it highlights why we must protect amphibians better. They are facing all kinds of challenges that are putting a lot of pressure on them, including habitat destruction and climate change itself.
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The arid climate in Tucson limits rainfall to approximately 12 inches per year, more than half of which falls during the annual monsoon.
Photo: Steve Riggs
Landscape designer, Logan Byers
Many locals have become passionate about harvesting that rain. Logan Byers is one of them. She is a local landscape designer, and sees the connection between life and rain.
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Wheat harvest | Region of Cusco, Peru | Kazuyoshi Nomachi / Corbis
Posted by Blue Line ⋅ December 24, 2011 ⋅
Filed Under Environment, Food, News
BREAKING NEWS: Three-quarters of the genetic diversity in agriculture have disappeared during the twentieth century, according to a study released Sept. 7 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The FAO experts draw a parallel between the decline of the indigenous tribes living space, globalization and the decline of biodiversity of food.
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http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/sun-shade-harvesting/sun-shade-harvesting-videos/
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.
Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives.
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http://www.american-oasis.com/chapters/0
julio 4, 2013 por joseppamie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_F2aSr0dA
Despues de varios años de experiencias extraordinarias con enfermos catalogados como terminales por la medicina oficial, podemos afirmar desde la Dulce Revolución, que en la mayoría de los casos lo que hace que un cáncer sea incurable , es creerse la sentencia final del médico .
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The following paddock layout offers a useful way of integrating trees into a grazing enterprise on sloping country. The aim of this approach is to minimise the impacts on production during the establishment phase, while offering significant benefits to both landscape and livestock once stock are reintroduced.
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A team of ranchers in South Dakota are using holistic management techniques to regenerate our ailing grasslands and fight climate change
Dusk in Western South Dakota. A half-hour ago, at sunset, the world here made its last pulse for the day: birds hurried between fence posts, mosquitoes emerged from the shadows and feasted furiously, the sweet clover turned iridescent yellow in the late light. Now, the movement has ceased. Even by day it is a quiet landscape, inhabited primarily by meadowlarks and grasses. But as night draws its blue self over this place, the silence is profound.
On this particular 8,000-acre section of the Plains there is a single light in view, coming from inside a trailer. Bustling about camp are three men — cowboys, you’d probably call them. They certainly look the part, dressed in boots and wide-brimmed hats, one of them splitting old fence posts with an axe to build a campfire, another working on some beef for dinner. They call this pasture Horse Creek for the water running down its center, and on it they have 1,100 yearling cattle.
And yet, for these men the bovines are only a means to a greater end. According to the unofficial ringleader, Jim Howell, their goal is nothing less than helping the world to avert a looming global catastrophe. What they’re doing here is not just herding cattle; they are starting what they call “The Brown Revolution.”
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