Relay cropping breakthrough to improve soil air and water qualityMohsin Tanveer
The document discusses the environmental issues caused by excessive use of chemical fertilizers in agriculture, including greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution from nutrient runoff, and loss of soil quality. It proposes relay cropping as a solution, where a secondary crop is planted among a primary crop near harvest to utilize excess nutrients. Studies have found that intercropping wheat and soybeans with maize can reduce fertilizer costs and increase farm profits by taking up leftover nitrogen that would otherwise be lost from the soil. More research is still needed to fully understand how relay cropping performs across different growing conditions and regions.
Richard Young's presentation from the Sustainable Food Trust's meeting: What role for grazing livestock in a world of climate change and diet-related disease?
Only 1% of the Earth's water is available for human use, and water is vital for regulating global and human body temperatures as well as for sectors like agriculture and industry. Water conservation aims to sustainably manage this precious resource by reducing unnecessary usage and implementing efficient practices. It is important because of increasing pollution, demand, and climate impacts. Individuals can help by stopping wastage, harvesting rainwater, using water efficiently, and properly disposing of and treating wastewater, while communities need effective irrigation, sewage systems, and conservation programs.
Presentation by Claire Chase, World Bank Group, at the Stockholm World Water Week on August 27th, 2019.
It highlights that Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture guidelines do not fully capture water-related issues. Also looks at entry points for improved nutritional outcomes, results indicators for nutrition-sensitive irrigation and water management lending operations,
the Uganda Irrigation Development and Climate Resilience project as a case study and the partnerships that scale up investments in nutrition-sensitive irrigation and water management.
Given at Stockholm World Water Week on 27 August, 2019 by Stineke Oenema, this presentation looks at the links between nutrition and access to fresh water in relation to achieving the SDGs.
Irrigation increases food supply by allowing more land to be farmed and double cropping, but can increase water-borne pests and diseases. Chemicals like fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides also boost yields by improving soil nutrients and controlling pests and weeds, but excessive use damages the environment as runoff pollutes water and harms ecosystems beyond farmed areas. While irrigation and chemicals can increase food, they must be used in moderation to avoid environmental damage.
Presentation by Claudia Ringler, IFPRI at the Stockholm World Water Week on August 27, 2019. The presentation includes characteristics of small-scale farmer led Irrigation, the key components of an enabling environment and case studies on dietary diversity, impacts on women's diets and irrigation-nutrition linkages.
How to feed the world and preserve the environmentHaulTail
Farmers bear much of the burden for growing the food to feed billions of people as the world's population continually trends upward.
But to do so, those farmers have to keep crops healthy and high-yielding. That necessitates using fertilizers and pesticides, which help crops but can have an inadvertent, negative impact on the environment.
Pollinators can be harmed. Waterways can become infiltrated with nutrient loads, killing aquatic life. Atmospheric greenhouse gases that cause climate change are increased.
On one hand, feed the world. On the other, preserve the environment.
Sylvie Brouder, a professor in the Purdue Department of Agronomy, knows it's possible to do both.
Relay cropping breakthrough to improve soil air and water qualityMohsin Tanveer
The document discusses the environmental issues caused by excessive use of chemical fertilizers in agriculture, including greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution from nutrient runoff, and loss of soil quality. It proposes relay cropping as a solution, where a secondary crop is planted among a primary crop near harvest to utilize excess nutrients. Studies have found that intercropping wheat and soybeans with maize can reduce fertilizer costs and increase farm profits by taking up leftover nitrogen that would otherwise be lost from the soil. More research is still needed to fully understand how relay cropping performs across different growing conditions and regions.
Richard Young's presentation from the Sustainable Food Trust's meeting: What role for grazing livestock in a world of climate change and diet-related disease?
Only 1% of the Earth's water is available for human use, and water is vital for regulating global and human body temperatures as well as for sectors like agriculture and industry. Water conservation aims to sustainably manage this precious resource by reducing unnecessary usage and implementing efficient practices. It is important because of increasing pollution, demand, and climate impacts. Individuals can help by stopping wastage, harvesting rainwater, using water efficiently, and properly disposing of and treating wastewater, while communities need effective irrigation, sewage systems, and conservation programs.
Presentation by Claire Chase, World Bank Group, at the Stockholm World Water Week on August 27th, 2019.
It highlights that Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture guidelines do not fully capture water-related issues. Also looks at entry points for improved nutritional outcomes, results indicators for nutrition-sensitive irrigation and water management lending operations,
the Uganda Irrigation Development and Climate Resilience project as a case study and the partnerships that scale up investments in nutrition-sensitive irrigation and water management.
Given at Stockholm World Water Week on 27 August, 2019 by Stineke Oenema, this presentation looks at the links between nutrition and access to fresh water in relation to achieving the SDGs.
Irrigation increases food supply by allowing more land to be farmed and double cropping, but can increase water-borne pests and diseases. Chemicals like fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides also boost yields by improving soil nutrients and controlling pests and weeds, but excessive use damages the environment as runoff pollutes water and harms ecosystems beyond farmed areas. While irrigation and chemicals can increase food, they must be used in moderation to avoid environmental damage.
Presentation by Claudia Ringler, IFPRI at the Stockholm World Water Week on August 27, 2019. The presentation includes characteristics of small-scale farmer led Irrigation, the key components of an enabling environment and case studies on dietary diversity, impacts on women's diets and irrigation-nutrition linkages.
How to feed the world and preserve the environmentHaulTail
Farmers bear much of the burden for growing the food to feed billions of people as the world's population continually trends upward.
But to do so, those farmers have to keep crops healthy and high-yielding. That necessitates using fertilizers and pesticides, which help crops but can have an inadvertent, negative impact on the environment.
Pollinators can be harmed. Waterways can become infiltrated with nutrient loads, killing aquatic life. Atmospheric greenhouse gases that cause climate change are increased.
On one hand, feed the world. On the other, preserve the environment.
Sylvie Brouder, a professor in the Purdue Department of Agronomy, knows it's possible to do both.
Enhancing Water Productivity in Crop-Livestock Systems of SSA: Minimizing tr...ILRI
Presentation by Tilahun Amede, Katrein Descheemaeker, E. Mapedza et al (IWMI) to the CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme Livestock Policy Group Meeting, 1 December 2009
Harvesting rains to grow fruit, vegetables and improved crops at watershed le...ICRISAT
This cropping season, observing all safety measures amidst the COVID pandemic, more than a 1,000 farmers will be participating in demonstrations on growing improved groundnut, pigeonpea and vegetables with balanced application of fertilizers and planting orchards at two learning sites of a successful watershed initiative in southern India. Simultaneously, more than 300 farmers will be participating in constructing new farm ponds.
Water Depletion/Affordability of Food - Presentation by Ashok Kumar Chapagain, Science Director, Water Footprint Network. This presentation was given as part of the 'Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems Workshop co-organized by Bioversity International and CIHEAM-IAMM, November 4th -5th 2014, Agropolis International, Montpellier
Visit 'Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems' Workshop webpage.
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/metrics-sustainable-diets-workshop/
1-Presentation - Food,Water,Energy Nexus in arena of Climate changeKirit Shelat
This document discusses the interconnected challenges of water, energy, and food security, and how addressing them through a nexus approach can help adapt to climate change. It notes increasing global demands for these resources and competition between sectors. A nexus approach seeks coordinated solutions across sectors through policies, planning, and stakeholder engagement. Addressing the drivers of vulnerability in specific sectors can build resilience while providing co-benefits across the nexus, like increasing resource use efficiency and availability. Examples discussed include adopting more efficient irrigation techniques, renewable energy, drought-resistant crops, and managing watersheds and river basins in an integrated way.
The document discusses soil health and provides information about the Soil Health Partnership. It mentions that the partnership collects data throughout the year to study yield, profitability, and environmental risk from physical, biological, and chemical perspectives. It also provides contact information for the partnership, including their email, website, Twitter, and Facebook pages for farmers and agronomists seeking more information.
1) Ethiopia faces constraints in the water-energy-food nexus due to its reliance on rain-fed agriculture and hydropower, leaving it vulnerable to climate change impacts like changing rainfall patterns.
2) Climate change is projected to reduce crop yields and river flows in Ethiopia by 2050, negatively impacting food production, hydropower generation, and economic growth.
3) A modeling analysis found that under climate change, Ethiopia's real GDP growth and welfare could be 0.14-0.21 percentage points lower annually by 2050, accumulating to losses of $143-238 billion over 2010-2050. Agriculture is most severely affected.
Mean water balance dynamics and smallholder management options for improved a...africa-rising
Poster prepared by F. Kizito, E. Salifu, W. Agyare and Cofie, O for the Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 1-2 February 2017
Water for a food-secure world
What does IWMI do to combat food and water security?
Dr. Colin Chartres
IWMI HQ, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka
September 20th, 2010
The document discusses the global issues of water scarcity and pollution. It notes that only 3% of the world's water is freshwater for human use, yet over half the population lives in urban areas and pollutes nearby water sources through industrial and urban wastewater. Developing efficient wastewater treatment systems is critical to address this. People must also better manage harvested rainwater, groundwater, and local lakes to optimize limited water resources. Solutions include improving water resources data, reforming water governance, promoting sustainable agriculture, and ensuring access to fresh water for all people.
Landscape natural resources management using forage grasses and legume interc...africa-rising
Poster prepared by F. Kizito, J. Kihara, B. Lukuyu, G. Sikumba, S. Lyimo, L. Yangole and I. Ibrahim for the Africa RISING Science for Impact Workshop, Dar es Salaam, 17-19 January 2017
Phil Woodhouse - Agricultural DynamicsSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
The document summarizes a vision for food systems in 2030 presented at an eROSA stakeholder workshop. The vision is for food systems that produce healthy, nutritious foods through efficient and environmentally sustainable methods. These food systems would operate as collaborative networks constantly improving their economic, environmental, and social performance for all actors. The food systems would contribute to achieving sustainability development goals and mitigate/adapt to climate change impacts.
Global hunger is a serious issue while food waste is simultaneously filling landfills. Approximately 1 in 7 people worldwide are hungry while 1/3 of the world's food is wasted each year, amounting to $250 billion worth. An anaerobic digestion system utilizes organic waste from resort restaurants to generate biogas through microbial breakdown, which can then be used to produce electricity and heat on-site through a combined heat and power unit, with the remaining digestate used as fertilizer. Such systems provide multiple benefits including reduced carbon footprint, waste disposal costs, and fossil fuel usage while improving community relations.
What Conservationists Need To Know About FarmingMosaddekHossain7
Presentation on Farming and Conservationist.
Presentation made from a Paper named '' What Conservationists Need To Know About Farming''. Author of the Paper is: Andrew Balmford, Rhys Green, Ben Phalan
Climate change poses a serious threat to food security by reducing food production and degrading land. Conservation agriculture (CA) techniques like no-till farming, intercropping, and agroforestry can help farmers adapt by conserving water, reducing erosion and increasing soil organic matter. CA also reduces carbon emissions from tilling and supports carbon sequestration in the soil. While CA can increase smallholder farmers' resilience to climate change impacts, challenges remain in promoting wider adoption due to lack of knowledge and risks of relying on external inputs. Overall, sustainable land management practices like CA are crucial for long-term agricultural productivity in Africa.
An ecosystem is made up of all living and non-living things that interact in a specific area. It can include things like plants, animals, soil, air and water. Living things have needs for survival, like certain plants and animals needing water or trees. Ecosystems range in size from small puddles to large biomes. Within an ecosystem, living things depend on each other through food chains, with producers like plants providing energy and consumers eating each other.
1. Organic farming began in the 1930s-1940s as a reaction to agriculture's growing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. Sir Albert Howard is widely considered the "father of organic farming".
2. Organic farming relies on ecological processes and cycles rather than synthetic inputs. It aims to sustain soil, ecosystem, and human health.
3. Benefits of organic farming include high nutritional quality, maintenance of soil fertility, and avoidance of pollution. Principles include health, ecology, fairness, and care.
Presentation at our ESPP – IFOAM EU stakeholder meeting Closing nutrient cycles and uptake of recycled fertilisers (12/12/2018)
See all outputs of the stakeholder meeting at our ESPP website: http://www.phosphorusplatform.eu/organic-agriculture
Enhancing Water Productivity in Crop-Livestock Systems of SSA: Minimizing tr...ILRI
Presentation by Tilahun Amede, Katrein Descheemaeker, E. Mapedza et al (IWMI) to the CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme Livestock Policy Group Meeting, 1 December 2009
Harvesting rains to grow fruit, vegetables and improved crops at watershed le...ICRISAT
This cropping season, observing all safety measures amidst the COVID pandemic, more than a 1,000 farmers will be participating in demonstrations on growing improved groundnut, pigeonpea and vegetables with balanced application of fertilizers and planting orchards at two learning sites of a successful watershed initiative in southern India. Simultaneously, more than 300 farmers will be participating in constructing new farm ponds.
Water Depletion/Affordability of Food - Presentation by Ashok Kumar Chapagain, Science Director, Water Footprint Network. This presentation was given as part of the 'Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems Workshop co-organized by Bioversity International and CIHEAM-IAMM, November 4th -5th 2014, Agropolis International, Montpellier
Visit 'Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems' Workshop webpage.
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/metrics-sustainable-diets-workshop/
1-Presentation - Food,Water,Energy Nexus in arena of Climate changeKirit Shelat
This document discusses the interconnected challenges of water, energy, and food security, and how addressing them through a nexus approach can help adapt to climate change. It notes increasing global demands for these resources and competition between sectors. A nexus approach seeks coordinated solutions across sectors through policies, planning, and stakeholder engagement. Addressing the drivers of vulnerability in specific sectors can build resilience while providing co-benefits across the nexus, like increasing resource use efficiency and availability. Examples discussed include adopting more efficient irrigation techniques, renewable energy, drought-resistant crops, and managing watersheds and river basins in an integrated way.
The document discusses soil health and provides information about the Soil Health Partnership. It mentions that the partnership collects data throughout the year to study yield, profitability, and environmental risk from physical, biological, and chemical perspectives. It also provides contact information for the partnership, including their email, website, Twitter, and Facebook pages for farmers and agronomists seeking more information.
1) Ethiopia faces constraints in the water-energy-food nexus due to its reliance on rain-fed agriculture and hydropower, leaving it vulnerable to climate change impacts like changing rainfall patterns.
2) Climate change is projected to reduce crop yields and river flows in Ethiopia by 2050, negatively impacting food production, hydropower generation, and economic growth.
3) A modeling analysis found that under climate change, Ethiopia's real GDP growth and welfare could be 0.14-0.21 percentage points lower annually by 2050, accumulating to losses of $143-238 billion over 2010-2050. Agriculture is most severely affected.
Mean water balance dynamics and smallholder management options for improved a...africa-rising
Poster prepared by F. Kizito, E. Salifu, W. Agyare and Cofie, O for the Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 1-2 February 2017
Water for a food-secure world
What does IWMI do to combat food and water security?
Dr. Colin Chartres
IWMI HQ, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka
September 20th, 2010
The document discusses the global issues of water scarcity and pollution. It notes that only 3% of the world's water is freshwater for human use, yet over half the population lives in urban areas and pollutes nearby water sources through industrial and urban wastewater. Developing efficient wastewater treatment systems is critical to address this. People must also better manage harvested rainwater, groundwater, and local lakes to optimize limited water resources. Solutions include improving water resources data, reforming water governance, promoting sustainable agriculture, and ensuring access to fresh water for all people.
Landscape natural resources management using forage grasses and legume interc...africa-rising
Poster prepared by F. Kizito, J. Kihara, B. Lukuyu, G. Sikumba, S. Lyimo, L. Yangole and I. Ibrahim for the Africa RISING Science for Impact Workshop, Dar es Salaam, 17-19 January 2017
Phil Woodhouse - Agricultural DynamicsSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
The document summarizes a vision for food systems in 2030 presented at an eROSA stakeholder workshop. The vision is for food systems that produce healthy, nutritious foods through efficient and environmentally sustainable methods. These food systems would operate as collaborative networks constantly improving their economic, environmental, and social performance for all actors. The food systems would contribute to achieving sustainability development goals and mitigate/adapt to climate change impacts.
Global hunger is a serious issue while food waste is simultaneously filling landfills. Approximately 1 in 7 people worldwide are hungry while 1/3 of the world's food is wasted each year, amounting to $250 billion worth. An anaerobic digestion system utilizes organic waste from resort restaurants to generate biogas through microbial breakdown, which can then be used to produce electricity and heat on-site through a combined heat and power unit, with the remaining digestate used as fertilizer. Such systems provide multiple benefits including reduced carbon footprint, waste disposal costs, and fossil fuel usage while improving community relations.
What Conservationists Need To Know About FarmingMosaddekHossain7
Presentation on Farming and Conservationist.
Presentation made from a Paper named '' What Conservationists Need To Know About Farming''. Author of the Paper is: Andrew Balmford, Rhys Green, Ben Phalan
Climate change poses a serious threat to food security by reducing food production and degrading land. Conservation agriculture (CA) techniques like no-till farming, intercropping, and agroforestry can help farmers adapt by conserving water, reducing erosion and increasing soil organic matter. CA also reduces carbon emissions from tilling and supports carbon sequestration in the soil. While CA can increase smallholder farmers' resilience to climate change impacts, challenges remain in promoting wider adoption due to lack of knowledge and risks of relying on external inputs. Overall, sustainable land management practices like CA are crucial for long-term agricultural productivity in Africa.
An ecosystem is made up of all living and non-living things that interact in a specific area. It can include things like plants, animals, soil, air and water. Living things have needs for survival, like certain plants and animals needing water or trees. Ecosystems range in size from small puddles to large biomes. Within an ecosystem, living things depend on each other through food chains, with producers like plants providing energy and consumers eating each other.
1. Organic farming began in the 1930s-1940s as a reaction to agriculture's growing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. Sir Albert Howard is widely considered the "father of organic farming".
2. Organic farming relies on ecological processes and cycles rather than synthetic inputs. It aims to sustain soil, ecosystem, and human health.
3. Benefits of organic farming include high nutritional quality, maintenance of soil fertility, and avoidance of pollution. Principles include health, ecology, fairness, and care.
Presentation at our ESPP – IFOAM EU stakeholder meeting Closing nutrient cycles and uptake of recycled fertilisers (12/12/2018)
See all outputs of the stakeholder meeting at our ESPP website: http://www.phosphorusplatform.eu/organic-agriculture
1. Biomass refers to organic material from plants and includes plant matter, animal waste, and organic industrial and municipal wastes.
2. Major sources of biomass include woody biomass from forests, herbaceous biomass like grasses and energy crops, aquatic plants and algae, agricultural residues, animal waste, sewage, municipal solid waste, and industrial waste.
3. Pakistan has significant biomass resources including agricultural residues, animal manure, municipal solid waste, and sugarcane waste that can be used for biogas and electricity generation.
Phosphorus recycling is a emerging problem in organic farming due to deterioration of rock phosphate sources from earth. There is a need for usage of alternative sources for P requirement by knowing their environmental impacts.
Composting in a Zero Carbon Footprint SystemReinbottt
This presentation gives an overview of composting and the project at the University of Missouri Bradford Research Center where food waste and horse bedding is being converted to compost to grow vegetables for Campus Dining and doing it all with a Zero Carbon Footprint
Organic agriculture scope and problems for conservation Saleman Sultani
Organic agriculture aims to optimize quality in all aspects of agriculture and the environment while respecting plants, animals, and landscapes. However, organic farming faces several problems including insufficient organic inputs, lower initial yields, lack of expertise and infrastructure. Transitioning to organic also requires adopting practices like crop rotation and biological pest control that are less common in conventional farming.
This document provides information about biogas, which is a type of gas produced from the breakdown of organic waste without oxygen. It is composed mainly of methane and can be produced from waste materials like animal dung and kitchen waste. The document explains that biogas can be used as an alternative cooking fuel and the waste can be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. It also describes the process of biogas production in a domestic biogas plant and the benefits it provides such as clean cooking fuel and organic manure.
This document reviews vermicomposting as an eco-friendly approach to handling organic waste. Vermicomposting uses earthworms to convert organic waste into humus-rich vermicompost. It discusses how various organic wastes from domestic, industrial, agricultural, and temple sources can be used as feedstocks for vermicomposting. The review also evaluates the most common earthworm species used for vermicomposting and their environmental tolerances. Vermicompost has benefits such as being a nutrient-rich organic fertilizer that improves soil quality and reduces reliance on chemical fertilizers.
KITCHEN & GARDEN COMPOSTING IN AN SITU BIODEGRADABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUEIRJET Journal
This document discusses kitchen and garden composting as an in situ biodegradable waste management technique. It was a study conducted by professors and students from the Department of Civil Engineering at Guru Nanak Institute of Technology. The study aimed to produce compost from kitchen waste on campus and analyze the physical and chemical properties of the compost over time. The researchers found that during the composting process, the carbon content and carbon-to-nitrogen ratio decreased over time as the organic matter broke down. Parameters like pH also decreased slightly. The compost produced was then used to study the growth of sunflower plants, finding that a mixture of 2 parts compost to 1 part soil promoted the best growth. The advantages
The organic farming movement began in the 1930s-1940s as a reaction to agriculture's increasing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. Sir Albert Howard is considered the "father of organic farming". Organic farming aims to sustain soil, ecosystem and human health by relying on ecological processes rather than chemical inputs. It combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the environment and promote fair relationships. Organic farming principles include sustaining health, working with ecological systems, ensuring fairness, and responsible management.
European phosphorus balance: uses and losses in agriculture & other sectorsKimo van Dijk
Presenter: Kimo van Dijk, Researcher Nutrient Managment and Phosphorus Security, Wageningen University
Co-authors: Oene Oenema & Jan Peter Lesschen
Title: European phosphorus balance: uses and losses in agriculture & other sectors
Location: P-REX Summer School, Basel, Switzerland
Date: 10 September 2014
Personal website: http://kimovandijk.weebly.com
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Austria AT
Belgium BE
Bulgaria BG
Cyprus CY
Czech Republic CZ
Germany DE
Denmark DK
Estonia EE
Spain ES
Finland FI
France FR
Greece EL
Hungary HU
Ireland IE
Italy IT
Lithuania LT
Luxembourg LU
Latvia LV
Malta MT
Netherlands NL
Poland PL
Portugal PT
Romania RO
Sweden SE
Slovenia SI
Slovakia SK
United Kingdom UK
Switzerland CH
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Pran Food Industry in Narshingdi produces 4000 metric tons of waste per year from processing 30,000 metric tons of raw materials. The company employs several waste management strategies including reuse, composting, recycling, landfilling, and energy production to treat the waste. These strategies help minimize environmental impacts while promoting a clean ecosystem. Proper waste management in the food industry can benefit the environment through reduced pollution and energy conservation, as well as lead to lower production costs and potential profits for companies.
This document discusses four topics related to sustainable agriculture and resource management:
1) Quality fertilizers from residues - The need to improve fertilizer production and application by utilizing nutrients in agricultural, industrial, and municipal residues.
2) Sustainable soils - Stopping soil degradation and improving soil quality through use of organic amendments from residues.
3) Advances in emission prevention - Developing innovative strategies to minimize emissions from agriculture and better manage nutrients, including rural-urban linkages.
4) The bioresource challenge - Ensuring sustainable use of bioresources for food, materials, chemicals, and energy given limits on agricultural and forest land.
Organic manure prepared from kitchen waste can produce nutritious vegetables while being environmentally friendly. Currently, Bangladesh soil contains less than 1% organic matter due to overuse of chemical fertilizers instead of organic materials like compost and manure. This is decreasing soil fertility and quality of produce while increasing malnutrition and diseases. Setting up organic manure preparation plants to process urban waste could produce millions of tons of organic fertilizer annually to improve soil and nutritional health for plants and people.
Requested the concerned authority to prepare organic manure with the urban kitchen wastes as well as to supply the same to the farmers level. Farmers will apply the manure to their cropping fields with a view to improve soil health as well as to grow anti-oxidant and other food value rich quality fruits and vegetables.
Urban agriculture and climate change enda ethiopiaAdeyenda
The document discusses the role of urban agriculture in addressing climate change impacts and promoting sustainability in urban areas. It outlines how climate change threatens urban populations through increased flooding, droughts and heat waves. Urban agriculture can help adapt by providing food and income, improving soil and air quality, reducing emissions through local production and waste recycling, and building resilience of vulnerable groups. The document also describes an organization's experience promoting urban agriculture in Ethiopia to boost livelihoods and nutrition of poor and HIV-affected communities through training and demonstration of organic farming techniques.
Our goal is the development and installation of modular semi-automated mushroom production modules that will ensure the production of quality mushrooms by anyone across the various socio-economic strata thereby providing an innovative sustainable farming solution to poverty eradication in Africas rural areas and the water poor Middle East.
This document provides an introduction to organic manures. It discusses that modern agricultural practices have led to depletion of soil nutrients and increased reliance on chemical fertilizers. Organic manures help maintain soil organic matter and recycling of organic wastes is important for soil health. The document then discusses the effects of excessive chemical fertilizer use, including nutrient losses, soil acidification, and pollution of water sources. It notes the advantages of organic manures in improving physical, chemical and biological soil properties. Major organic sources are described including farm yard manure, animal wastes, crop residues, and compost. Carbon cycling through photosynthesis and decomposition is also summarized.
Heritage Conservation.Strategies and Options for Preserving India HeritageJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation looks at the role , relevance and importance of built and natural heritage, issues faced by heritage in the Indian context and options which can be leveraged to preserve and conserve the heritage.It also lists the challenges faced by the heritage due to rapid urbanisation, land speculation and commercialisation in the urban areas. In addition, ppt lays down the roadmap for the preservation, conservation and making value addition to the available heritage by making it integral part of the planning , designing and management of the human settlements.
1. Half of the phosphorus and nitrogen applied every year
to croplands in the EU comes from non-renewable sources.
In this linear process, a high percentage of valuable nutrients
are left unused, leading to pollution and contributing to greenhouse
gas emissions. If we can recover nutrients from biowaste (such as
animal manure, sewage sludge, food and feed waste) and reuse them
on croplands we can reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
at the same time as contributing to agriculture’s transition to a
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