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A big picture

If everyone shifts trophic status to roughly herbivore level, and we educate all the world’s women to secondary level, we have a chance.

The difference between 12 billion and 9 billion people in 2050 is one child per woman. If all the world’s women were educated to secondary level, fertility would drop by about 1.7 children per woman. And we can probably feed 9 billion herbivorous people, if we can maintain the crop diversity of the major grain crops high enough to avoid catastrophic disease outbreaks.

Read more from Steve Carpenter at Resilience Science.

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Map THIS

Resilience Science points to a new source of cartograms at ShowWorld, a project of Mapping Worlds. These maps, which display a metric by manipulating the sizes of the various countries displayed, are a wonderful way to bring boring old data to life, and an even better way to fill an empty hour or two. What I really want, though, is a way to mash two data sources. Resilience Sciences selects carbon dioxide emissions and pig populations. Great, and just looking at the maps I have a strong impression that there’s no correlation between number of pigs and carbon dioxide emitted. But is that really true? Enquiring minds want to know. Some genius should figure out a way of doing x per y in a cartogram.

Here, though, we have Wine and Cheese, which were meant to go together, and more or less do, which is nice.

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2nd World Congress of Agroforestry 3rd Announcement

This just in.

Theme: Agroforestry – The Future of Global Land Use

The Congress will assess opportunities to leverage scientific agroforestry in promoting sustainable land use worldwide. It will also serve as a forum for agroforestry researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers from around the world to:

  • share new research findings, lessons, experiences, and ideas that will help influence decisions that impact on livelihoods and the global environment
  • explore new opportunities and strengthen existing partnerships in agroforestry research, education, training, and development
  • form new networks and communities of practice, and nurture old ones