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ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 15 2007 | africa, agriculture, world bank
Duh.
Quoted: A withering new internal report has found that the World Bank has long neglected African agriculture, one of the most important sectors in addressing chronic poverty.
“Here’s your most important client, Africa, with its most important sector, agriculture, relevant to the most important goal — people feeding their families — and the bank has been caught with two decades of neglect,”
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | sustainability, planning, design, energy, development, international, world, innovation, ideas, technology, agriculture, nature, environment, cities
Quoted: an approach to designing human settlements, in particular the development of perennial agricultural systems that mimic the structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies...Exemplary permaculture designs evolve over time, and can become extremely complex mosaics of conventional and inventive cultural systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.
tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 24 2007 | science, agriculture, news
Quoted: Archaeologists at the University of Colorado, excavating this summer at a buried Maya village in El Salvador, reported yesterday the discovery of remains of a field of cultivated manioc that grew 1,400 years ago. They said this was the earliest evidence for cultivation of the carbohydrate-rich tuber in the Americas.
wow, that's really cool! what an awesome discovery.
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Quoted: Many a professor dreams of revolution. But Norman T. Uphoff, working in a leafy corner of the Cornell University campus, is leading an inconspicuous one centered on solving the global food crisis. The secret, he says, is a new way of growing rice.
Originally developed by a French Jesuit priest based in Madagascar.
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