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Restoring degraded land

by Jeremy on April 15, 2008

There’s a new issue of New Agriculturist online. The focus is on restoring degraded land, and there’s something there for everyone.

  • Bioreclamation of degraded lands in the Sahel
  • Livelihoods in Nepal – No longer an uphill struggle
  • Harnessing the healing power of nature – natural regeneration in India
  • A solution to India’s sodic soils?
  • The Loess Plateau: from China’s sorrow to Earth’s hope
  • Learning not to burn – transforming land and livelihoods in Central America
  • Brighter future for farmers in Uzbekistan
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Featured Comment: August 29, 2010

Penny has an intriguing idea about black rice:

“Dr Xu says he’s like to see Louisiana farmers growing black rice”

Or, we could just buy it from the countries where it is indigenous to. That way, the farmers who actually developed it would benefit from producing it.

She has reasons, too, good ones.

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    • RT @CropTrust: @KremlinRussia_E Mr. President, protect the future of food - save #Pavlovsk Station! http://bit.ly/d2H96s September 1, 2010 EveEmshwiller (Eve Emshwiller)
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    • scandal surrounding the site of the Vavilov Horticultural Research Institute in #Pavlovsk is escalating dramatically http://bit.ly/doABxK September 1, 2010 InvasiveNotes (John Peter Thompson)
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    • RT @CropTrust: Know your plants? Group effort to identify plants in photos from #Pavlovsk on our Facebook page: http://sn.im/11306h September 1, 2010 danjite (Daniel Spector)
    • Russia's seed bank under threat http://youtu.be/q7rVT7Bf2Ek?a #Pavlovsk September 1, 2010 lophophora_blog (Lophophora Blog)
    • More photos from priceless #Pavlovsk Station plant collection here: http://sn.im/1130dr September 1, 2010 CropTrust (Crop Diversity Trust)
    • RT @InvasiveNotes: developers say #Pavlovsk contains a "priceless collection" so no monetary value cn B assigned 2 it http://bit.ly/aDCVhO September 1, 2010 carbonmarket (Victoria Kamsler)
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