Land management

Originally Published by The Guardian - The Guardian reports from the March of the Beekeepers, a protest in Parliament Square against the UK's opposition to an EU plan to ban insecticides linked to serious harm in bees

Originally Published by ENN

– A team of researchers led by the University of Warwick are about to embark on a research program called “Cleaning Land for Wealth” (CL4W), that will use a common class of flower to restore poisoned soils.

The presentation addresses the water quality issues in the Nile system in Egypt and the impact on aquatic life. This is followed by suggestion of a management approach to mitigate some of the effects of water quality degradation on aquaculture production in the Northern Delta Region.

(By Prof. Dr. Ashraf Ghanem, Irrigation & Hydraulics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.)

Papua New Guinea's high fertility rate is exerting pressure on land and food
production in a country where 80 percent of the population lives in rural
communities. But the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) argues that
traditions of subsistence agriculture provide a firm foundation to build food
security for a growing population.