Why would we invest in research on production of climate-resilient food crops, if all over the world such food crops already exist? Distribution of seeds and introduction of crops 'new to the region' can solve most of the food problems. Enhancing biodiversity of food crops in the drylands can even be a solution for hunger, malnutrition and poverty. it is a question of making the right choices.
Shall we wait until scientists have developed sufficient climate-resilient food crops or shall we disperse existing ones, adapted to specific climate zones, if the climate change is forcing us to look for other food crops?
potato is one of the famous vegetable in around the world it is very popular in all over. Potato is very delicious in taste and in less time we cook many types of recipes. If you are looking suppliers of fresh potato then you visit at web portal of tradeindia.
Shall we wait until scientists have developed sufficient climate-resilient food crops or shall we disperse existing ones, adapted to specific climate zones, if the climate change is forcing us to look for other food crops?
potato is one of the famous vegetable in around the world it is very popular in all over. Potato is very delicious in taste and in less time we cook many types of recipes. If you are looking suppliers of fresh potato then you visit at web portal of tradeindia.
Some people have questions concerning the possible invasive nature of some vegetables or fruits. To the best of my knowledge there are no invasive vegetables. My logic says: if one or another “foreign” vegetable invades a new area where it is cultivated, no harm would be done because more vegetables would mean more food. Would people really mind such an invasive vegetable to spread easily, in particular the rural people in the drylands? Would such an invasive vegetable be an ecological catastrophe or would the local population appreciate the proliferation of that new kind of “free fresh food”?
Organic Greenhouse Vegetable Production; Gardening Guidebook ~ National Sustainable Ag ~ For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica
http://scribd.com/doc/239850233
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Mike Korb, PA DEP, “Mine Reclamation and Monarch Butterfly Habitat”Michael Hewitt, GISP
Monarchs need milkweed as a breeding habitat. Loss of meadow and farm milkweed stands in eastern and Midwestern US due to no till farming, herbicides, “getting rid of weeds”, and genetically modified corn has caused a major decline in Monarch Butterflies. We have started what may become a major initiative to utilize mineland reclamation as replacements for some of these habitats, and this presentation will discuss this effort.
Seed Saving for Beginners (Tomatoes, Peas, Beans, Lettuce)Seed Savers
Easy crops for beginning seed savers (tomatoes, peas, beans and lettuce), including plant pollination, isolation, seed harvest and processing. Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngW0eOwkoIM
Families in rural Guatemala working to improve their food supply and nutrition for their children need help in protecting their gardens from damage from thunderously heavy rains.
Poor people living in difficult conditions can easily produce fresh food by gardening on sacks. It can be recommended to create tunnels with drought-tolerant Navajo willows to improve the gardening conditions (shadow, air humidity). More yield equals less poverty and less desertification.
Some people have questions concerning the possible invasive nature of some vegetables or fruits. To the best of my knowledge there are no invasive vegetables. My logic says: if one or another “foreign” vegetable invades a new area where it is cultivated, no harm would be done because more vegetables would mean more food. Would people really mind such an invasive vegetable to spread easily, in particular the rural people in the drylands? Would such an invasive vegetable be an ecological catastrophe or would the local population appreciate the proliferation of that new kind of “free fresh food”?
Organic Greenhouse Vegetable Production; Gardening Guidebook ~ National Sustainable Ag ~ For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica
http://scribd.com/doc/239850233
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Mike Korb, PA DEP, “Mine Reclamation and Monarch Butterfly Habitat”Michael Hewitt, GISP
Monarchs need milkweed as a breeding habitat. Loss of meadow and farm milkweed stands in eastern and Midwestern US due to no till farming, herbicides, “getting rid of weeds”, and genetically modified corn has caused a major decline in Monarch Butterflies. We have started what may become a major initiative to utilize mineland reclamation as replacements for some of these habitats, and this presentation will discuss this effort.
Seed Saving for Beginners (Tomatoes, Peas, Beans, Lettuce)Seed Savers
Easy crops for beginning seed savers (tomatoes, peas, beans and lettuce), including plant pollination, isolation, seed harvest and processing. Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngW0eOwkoIM
Families in rural Guatemala working to improve their food supply and nutrition for their children need help in protecting their gardens from damage from thunderously heavy rains.
Poor people living in difficult conditions can easily produce fresh food by gardening on sacks. It can be recommended to create tunnels with drought-tolerant Navajo willows to improve the gardening conditions (shadow, air humidity). More yield equals less poverty and less desertification.
The drought-resistant bamboo species, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, can successfully be used for erosion control and windbreaks. It is an efficient tool in the combat of desertification and, because of its numerous applications and high economic value, it has a lot of potentials to alleviate poverty.
The drought-resistant bamboo species, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, can successfully be used for erosion control and windbreaks. It is an efficient tool in the combat of desertification and, because of its numerous applications and high economic value, it has a lot of potentials to alleviate poverty.
Creation of family gardens and school gardens can contribute to the extenuation of child malnutrition. Container gardening is an inexpensive way to alleviate hunger and poverty.
Successful food production programmes or projects should be duplicated all over the world, e.g. the Pro-Huerta programme. Combating hunger and malnutrition would yield far more better results with such programmes than with food aid alone.
Growing young trees in plastic bottles instead of polybags offers significant advantages : less irrigation water needed, higher survival rates. Important step forward in the combat of drought and desertification.
Container gardening is related to agroforestry. Vegetables and trees can be grown in bottles and pots. It is an inexpensive and simple method to alleviate hunger and poverty, and a contribution to limit global warming through reforestation.
In all the drylands harvested water should be stored in big barrels. Thousands of barrels are destroyed in the industry. It would be nice to save these barrels for aid delivery to developing countries. They should be made available for rural people to create possibilities to produce fresh food in kitchen gardens.
The drought-resistant bamboo species, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, can successfully be used for erosion control and windbreaks. It is an efficient tool in the combat of desertification and, because of its numerous applications and high economic value, it has a lot of potentials to alleviate poverty.
Biodiversity is the variety of life in all its forms, levels & combinations. To maintain the biodiversity of the Gaian organism is of vital importance because each species represents a node of connexion in the complex web of Life which sustains us. At the moment our industrial & highly consumerist civilization is responsible for the disappearance of some 200 species per day.
These are converted into human biomass on a daily basis, but we're destroying the foundation that support our own survival. So there is a big job to do. In this class we explore some direct ways of increasing biodiversity at a local level, like seed recuperation, habitat protection, & starting to change our diet in a conscious way so that it adapts better to the indigenous ecosystem of our region, instead of trying to adapt nature to our whims.
20 March 2018. This workshop focused on both the Belgian and the African context. Apart from
staff from the Botanic Garden, the Africa Museum and also RBIN (Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences), this workshop involved people and organisations from the African Diaspora community.
Meise Botanic Garden and the BigPicnic project: edible insects, consumers acceptance and food security. Jutta Kleber, Meise Botanic Garden
Seed Saving in the Classroom Fall Lesson Plan: Seed Savers Exchange
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Seed Saving in the Classroom ~ seedsavers.org
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For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Grow your own Teeny Tiny Farm by Amber O'NeillArt4Agriculture
The Cream of the Crop Competition invites students in NSW secondary and tertiary education institutions to create a PowerPoint or a video which can be published on the web and win $500.
The competition ask the students to promote the importance of agriculture to their peers, to encourage a better understanding of agriculture as well as promote agricultural careers and rural life.
Join Seed Savers Exchange and South Sioux City Public Library on learning how to incorporate a Seed Saving program into your library. Seed Savers Exchange will talk about basic seed saving skills and Herman’s Garden (a seed donation program). The South Sioux City Library will talk about their program and also materials you can add to your collection. Speakers: Grant Olson, Seed Savers Exchange; Dave Mixdorf, Director, South Sioux City Public Library.
NCompass Liv
Allotment gardens, survival or victory gardens, it are the nicest success stories in the combat of hunger and child malnutrition. Applied in World War I and II, they still exist and show it is the best strategy to help the one billion of hungry people.
Development aid should concentrate on initiatives to boost food security through small-scale family gardens instead of international food aid on which the most of the recipients remain totally dependent
New vegetables and fruit trees are not dangerous or invasive. On the contrary, they are interesting tools to improve public health and annual income. By the way, once potatoes, tomatoes and maize were 'new' vegetables or fruits on our market, didn't they ?
Presentation of some good examples of container gardening to produce trees, vegetables, herbs, succulents, cactus seedlings etc. at home. Large-scale application can be helpful to combat desertification and to improve survival rates in reforestation.
The drought-resistant bamboo species, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, can successfully be used for erosion control and windbreaks. It is an efficient tool in the combat of desertification and, because of its numerous applications and high economic value, it has a lot of potentials to alleviate poverty.
The drought-resistant bamboo species, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, can successfully be used for erosion control and windbreaks. It is an efficient tool in the combat of desertification and, because of its numerous applications and high economic value, it has a lot of potentials to alleviate poverty.
The drought-resistant bamboo species, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, can successfully be used for erosion control and windbreaks. It is an efficient tool in the combat of desertification and, because of its numerous applications and high economic value, it has a lot of potentials to alleviate poverty.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
1. To produce climate-resilient food crops or to use existing ones?<br />Prof. Dr. Willem VAN COTTHEMHonorary Professor University of Ghent (Belgium)Beeweg 36 - BE 9080 ZAFFELARE (Belgium)http://desertification.wordpress.comhttp://www.seedsforfood.orghttp://containergardening.wordpress.comhttp://zadenvoorleven.wordpress.com<br />I have been reading a very interesting publication at IRINNEWS HYPERLINK quot;
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88225, entitled<br />AFRICA: Finding the food crops of the future<br />If it ever occurs, climate change could make that classical staple foods can’t be grown anymore in the climatic zones of today. People would need to grow other crops. In our own country, which would be the food crops of the future? What kind of options for continued food security will we have? Do we need scientists to do years of research work on climate models linked to agriculture and horticulture to determine which will be the crop yields in the future? Or can we use existing climate-resilient crops in a ‘new’ environment created by the impact of climatic changes on the existing vegetation?<br />Some scientists believe that intensive research work is needed to produce these ‘new’ varieties of food crops, e.g. drought-resistant ones. Models are already used and still perfected. Some believe that experimenting with these models, or with genetic modification of existing food crops, ‘will save the time that would have been spent on field trials and help speed up the agricultural research cycle’ (see Jennifer OLSON in the article mentioned above). Therefore, highly estimated institutions provide extremely important research grants to encourage such ‘innovative solutions’.<br />I fully agree with Jennifer OLSON that ‘bioscience can improve crop resilience to climate change, or perhaps improve the shelf-life of a food product’, but I want to express my serious doubts about the necessity to spend millions of dollars on developing ‘new’ varieties of climate-resilient crops, when in nature one finds a considerable number of species and varieties of plant species that can successfully be introduced in regions or countries affected by climate change, e.g. drought-stricken areas.<br />It suffices to accept that under the new conditions these drought-resistant plants, having a high nutritional value for men or livestock, can be shipped as seeds from elsewhere to become the ‘new’ staple food.<br />If we can’t grow maize (corn) anymore, but another, less water-consuming cereal, why should we stay hungry? If our region would become not adapted to olives, oranges, almonds, papayas, bananas etc., why would we hesitate to grow other already existing fruits from other climatic zones?<br />It is my most sincere conviction that Africans can be perfectly happy with food crops now growing in Asia or South-America and vice-versa. I also believe that we should pay more attention (do some rather inexpensive research work) on opportunities to introduce Asian or South American food crops in the African drylands or the other way around.<br />Do we need to fear invasive species? Let someone explain first to us what would be an ‘invasive’ food crop. Would it become a noxious weed? Would we have to destroy it or eat it?<br />I leave that discussion open for now, trusting in the fact that if the Brazilians in their ‘Nord-Este Province’ have enormous plantations of the spineless prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica with edible fruits and green disks that can be used as fodder, etc.), my good friends in the Sahelian countries or even in the Sahara desert would be bewildered if they could get a good opportunity to set up such plantations in their drylands. Invasive species? No way: because the spiny prickly pear grows all over that part of the world. Too expensive? No way: because it suffices to put a disk in the dry soil to see it shooting.<br />2007 - Spineless prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) growing in Algeria.<br />2007 - Spineless Opuntia ficus-indica is well known as a drought-resilient species, producing huge biomass with a minimum of water, producing juicy fruits and green fodder for livestock. It should be used for large-scale plantations in all the drylands. Fruits and even meal produced from dry disks have their economic value.<br />This Opuntia is only one single example of a drought resilient species or variety that should be dispersed all over the desertified world, where it can help people to get a higher annual income.<br />Being a scientist myself, I have no hard feelings against enormous grants given to research work. But accepting that research work must go on, I can’t stop dreaming of extremely inexpensive research work in the field itself to disperse ‘all good things’ that Mother Earth is offering us today.<br />Every time I am reading about the fantastic qualities of one or another plant species or a variety, I am dreaming about the possibility to use seeds or parts of that plant to improve the living conditions of all the people who don’t have the chance to profit from this exquisite species. This way, my action ‘Seeds for Food’ was born (see <www.seedsforfood.org>). Whenever you have a chance to let a melon grow in the drylands, go out there and look at a child’s eyes when it bites for the first time in such a juicy fruit.<br />Why would we hesitate to send all the seeds of the melons we consume to climate zones where they can grow? Why don’t we offer those rural people, or even the people in cities or towns in the drylands, a chance to grow avocado trees (Persea americana), tomato trees (Cyphomandra betacea), cherimoyas, spekbooms, pitayas or dragonfruits, …<br />Knowing that all these ‘goodies’ are already there, we do not have to wait for the results of years of research work. We only have to take the decision to spread the ‘goodies’ around, of course in a well-organized way, e.g. as seeds. That’s what ‘organizations’ are set up for. <br />To produce climate-resilient food crops or to use existing ones, for me it is no question anymore.<br />