Posts tagged "sustainability"

Sustainable agriculture in China

The economic growth that China has experienced during the past 40 years has in more recent years raised public’s attention on resource conservation and environmental protection, food security as well as employment and income generation. The concept of sustainable development has been formulated in an international context and has been recognized by most countries around the...

The Water footprint

We are all aware of the importance of water in everyday life. We see water as an unlimited resource and most of all it is free. Or is it?  The majority of us use water for washing, cooking and drinking and general household use but we are not aware that this is only a small...

Waste management

According to FAO, by 2050 the world’s population will reach 9.1 Billion. Most of this will take place in developing countries, in order to feed this larger population food production must increase by 70%. Annual cereal production will need to increase by to about 3 billion tonnes from the 2.1 billion of today. However the European commission...

New bird species in Spain

The scientific and conservationist association Sociedad Espanola de Ornitolocia o SEO/Birdlife is one of the first Spanish conservationist NGOs and actively collaborating with Agraz  for the conservation of  birdlife. SEO/Birdlife has recently updated its catalogue of birds. The update counts up to 56 new species since the last edition was published in 2005.  SEO/Birdlife has...

The future of young farmers in the EU

As a consequence of Europe’s aging agricultural population, a new European-wide campaign has been launched in order to raise public awareness with regards to an aging crisis. The organizer of the campaign is a non governmental  organization CEJA,  European Council of Young Farmers. The organization wants to promote the agricultural sector in order to make this sector...

Protecting biodiversity in Guadiana basin.

Regulating and moderating the consumption of water is a priority and a necessity for a modern sustainable agriculture. We know that water supply is limited and that we need to regulate its use. The natural flow of a river is being affected by human activity by the diversion  of water courses  and storage of water...

Economy and biodiversity

One of the greatest miss-understandings that we come to accept is that capitalism and biodiversity cannot co-exist, that economy growth cannot happen without giving up our biodiversity.  Biodiversity is the variety of all living organisms (plant animals and microorganisms) and their relationship with the ecosystems. The term applies for all the variety of genes (DNA),...

Crop rotation

Crop rotation means alternating crop variety each season for at least three growing seasons this means that the same crop will not be planted in the same place and will return to it after three growing seasons. It is a necessary practice where tomato is cultivated in monoculture.  The main reason crop rotation is adopted is...

Optimizing the agricultural irrigation system

The rise in world population and improvement in living standards in developing countries will result in an increase in agricultural product demand. As agriculture products demand increases water is becoming a precious  commodity  especially in poorer countries where agricultural land and water for irrigation are of primary importance. Today’s world population of 6,000 million is...