Farms

What happens when, in a particular tropical landscape, you combine human labor, introduced plants, and diverse societal histories and structures? You end up with anthropogenic or cultural landscapes – the “matrix” in current ecological jargon – such as the domesticated forests of Southeast Asia, the tree gardens of Caribbean or Pacific islands, the shambas of Africa, the rice […]

In the southwest of Tanzania, the Mbeya region encompasses several important areas for biodiversity. The land has a variety of productive uses, including livestock production in the drylands, irrigated rice near the rivers, small-scale maize in the hills, and fruit and plantation trees in the more humid, higher elevations, while large protected forested areas supply […]

Pendant qu’une grande partie de l’attention du public sur les changements climatiques est focalisée sur le dioxyde de carbone, c’est deux autres Gaz à Effet de Serre (GES), l’oxyde nitreux et le méthane qui ont une large part dans la contribution de l’agriculture au changement climatique. L’oxyde nitreux est libéré lorsque l’azote des engrais ou […]

Over the past months, this blog has featured many inspiring “success stories” of integrated landscape initiatives from around the world. But are these just a series of interesting anecdotes—each stemming from its own unique context—or can we begin to derive some generalized principles that might help inform practices and policies for future landscape initiatives in […]

Si bien gran parte de la atención del público sobre el cambio climático se centra en el dióxido de carbono, existen otros dos gases de efecto invernadero (GEI): el óxido nitroso y el metano, que forman la mayor parte de las emisiones de la agricultura que contribuyen al cambio climático. El óxido nitroso se libera […]

While much of the public attention to climate change focuses on carbon dioxide it is two other greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide and methane that comprise the largest part of agriculture’s contribution to climate change. In an article recently published in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, researchers compared GHG fluxes from five management regimes for winter wheat-summer […]