Agricultural Innovation: How Drip Irrigation Will Save Our Crops
For millennia, in areas of low rainfall, surface irrigation has been utilized, requesting, however, an abundant water supply. Therefore, in many areas where perennial or annual crops are grown there is a need for supplemental irrigation for their growth and
FORESTS: Innovation from multiple to seasonal cropping
Can new Forest ecosystems be designed and developed to provide the same type of stable and seasonal revenue as Croplands? Hilly and mountainous areas that once were thickly-wooded or covered with forests are often reduced to stony, unproductive ground by years of
Resurrection of Ancient Animals and Plants: Is Man next?
In America, scientists who are thinking hard about the future have found an intellectual home in the Long Now Foundation. Founded some 20 years ago, this private foundation brings together people who are into “long thinking”, promoting a slower culture
Sweet Sorghum Better than Sugarcane
The Perfect Crop to address Climate Change: Genetically Improved Perennial Sweet Sorghums Grain sorghum has deep roots in our human past. It began in Africa, domesticated mainly as a food grain crop. Some 3.000 years ago, it traveled to the Indian
Innovations in Food Production – An Urgent Need
In the near future, feeding the world will become the number one challenge for scientists, as the on-going demographic explosion rolls on. In the photo: A mammoth political rally in New Delhi. When the picture was take, in