#monocultures — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monocultures, aggregated by home.social.
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Resilience in #agroecology
"Diversified agroecological systems are more resilient – they have a greater capacity to recover from disturbances including extreme weather events such as drought, floods or hurricanes; and to resist pest and disease attack. Following Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, biodiverse farms including #agroforestry, #contourfarming and #covercropping retained 20–40 percent more topsoil, suffered less erosion and experienced lower economic losses than neighboring farms practicing conventional #monocultures."
https://www.fao.org/agroecology/overview/the-10-elements-of-agroecology/resilience/en
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Resilience in #agroecology
"Diversified agroecological systems are more resilient – they have a greater capacity to recover from disturbances including extreme weather events such as drought, floods or hurricanes; and to resist pest and disease attack. Following Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, biodiverse farms including #agroforestry, #contourfarming and #covercropping retained 20–40 percent more topsoil, suffered less erosion and experienced lower economic losses than neighboring farms practicing conventional #monocultures."
https://www.fao.org/agroecology/overview/the-10-elements-of-agroecology/resilience/en
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Resilience in #agroecology
"Diversified agroecological systems are more resilient – they have a greater capacity to recover from disturbances including extreme weather events such as drought, floods or hurricanes; and to resist pest and disease attack. Following Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, biodiverse farms including #agroforestry, #contourfarming and #covercropping retained 20–40 percent more topsoil, suffered less erosion and experienced lower economic losses than neighboring farms practicing conventional #monocultures."
https://www.fao.org/agroecology/overview/the-10-elements-of-agroecology/resilience/en
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Resilience in #agroecology
"Diversified agroecological systems are more resilient – they have a greater capacity to recover from disturbances including extreme weather events such as drought, floods or hurricanes; and to resist pest and disease attack. Following Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, biodiverse farms including #agroforestry, #contourfarming and #covercropping retained 20–40 percent more topsoil, suffered less erosion and experienced lower economic losses than neighboring farms practicing conventional #monocultures."
https://www.fao.org/agroecology/overview/the-10-elements-of-agroecology/resilience/en
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Resilience in #agroecology
"Diversified agroecological systems are more resilient – they have a greater capacity to recover from disturbances including extreme weather events such as drought, floods or hurricanes; and to resist pest and disease attack. Following Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, biodiverse farms including #agroforestry, #contourfarming and #covercropping retained 20–40 percent more topsoil, suffered less erosion and experienced lower economic losses than neighboring farms practicing conventional #monocultures."
https://www.fao.org/agroecology/overview/the-10-elements-of-agroecology/resilience/en
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1/5 A new art book is ready. I don't know why I craft them nor how to explain what I do. It's an intuitive way of working with colours, textures, mixed media and collage, for seeing, touching, and more. A very #meditative work.
This one was the attempt to find something beautiful in our maize #monocultures that I detest.
Just browse my book here.#artBook #maize #corn #corncob #printing #mixedmedia #collage #paperArt #fiberArt #embroidery #slowStitching #intuitive #intuitiveArt #biodiversity
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What the heck is “#CornSweat” and is it making the Midwest more dangerous?
It’s pretty much just as gross as it sounds.
"In one 2020 study, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics analyzed a past summer heat wave in the Midwest and found that cropland — most of which comprised corn in this part of the country — can increase moisture in the air above it by up to 40 percent."
by Benji Jones
Aug 29, 2024"Ah, yes, late August in the Midwest: a time for popsicles by the lake, a trip to the county fair, and, of course, extreme humidity made more miserable by … corn sweat.
"Corn sweat. It’s a thing! And people are talking about it.
The term refers to the moisture released by fields of corn during hot and sunny weather. Like all other plants, corn transpires — meaning, it sucks up water from the ground and expels it into the air as a way to stay cool and distribute nutrients. Moisture also enters the air when water in the soil evaporates. Together with transpiration, this process is called #evapotranspiration.
"So, where you find loads of plants packed tightly into one place, whether the Amazon rainforest or #Iowa, humidity can skyrocket during hot and especially sunny periods, making the air feel oppressive.
"That’s what happened this week: A late-summer #heatwave brought record and near-record temperatures to parts of the Midwest where there also happen to be vast fields of corn. With plenty of sunlight and temperatures in the high 90s, it was enough to make corn sweat, producing extremely uncomfortable weather.
"It’s not that corn sweats more than other plants — an acre releases less moisture on average than, say, a large oak tree — but the Midwest has a lot of corn in late August. In Iowa, for example, more than two-thirds of the area is farmland, and corn is the top crop (followed by #soybeans, which, by the way, also sweat)."
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"Again, it’s not just crops across the #Midwest that release moisture, increase humidity, and make summers feel disgusting (I know firsthand; I grew up in Iowa). The millions of acres of #prairie that industrial farmland replaced — mostly to feed livestock and make ethanol — would have also produced loads of moisture, Basso said.
"But there are some key differences between native #ecosystems and #IndustrialFarmland, he added. '#NativePrairies are diverse ecosystems with a variety of plant species, each with different root depths and water needs, helping to create a balanced moisture cycle,' he told me. 'In contrast, corn and #soy #monocultures are uniform and can draw water from the soil more quickly.'"
#CimateChange #IndustrialAgriculture #BigAg #Wetbulb #Fieldworkers #HeatWaves
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New publication: Cover crop mixtures do not assemble markedly distinct soil #microbiotas as compared to #monocultures in a multilocation field experiment. #biodiversity #agriculture #microbiome #covercrops #pathogens #soil
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105573 -
"AMY GOODMAN: It’s one of the largest oil corporations in the world, #ADNOC, the #AbuDhabiNationalOilCorporation, #SultanAlJaber, who is the head of this COP.
"NNIMMO BASSEY: Yes. And, you know, we’ve heard so many things going on. And with the #FossilFuel industry being so prominent here, with bankers crawling the spaces of the COP, we’re seeing a lot of trade discussions. And, you know, this breaks my heart when I look at the way African negotiators or policymakers, the politicians, are bending back and accepting whatever is being thrown at them by the — through those who are investing in #CarbonOffsetting or #CarbonTrading mechanisms. We’re seeing a sellout of #AfricanContinent.
"And we know the implications for this. One, it means once you sell out a territory for a period of time, you’ve lost #sovereignty, so to speak, over that place, over that #forest, over that community, over that territory. And then it means negatively — negative impact on communities who live in the area that we are selling out. We’re talking about millions of hectares being mapped out to be sold for #CarbonCredit generative facilities. And, you know, some of this means #reforestation or forestation. It means clearing the land and planting new trees. Now, that itself emits, releases a lot of carbon from the soil. And then, of course, these #NewTrees are #monocultures, and they don’t — they are not as efficient #CarbonSinks as #NaturalForests. And so we’re seeing losses in every dimension."
#Africa #COP28 #EnvironmentalRacism
#Greenwashing #ClimateActivism #CorporateColonialism