Sentences with phrase «food forest project»
MATTAPAN, MA — A volunteer leader in the food forest project at Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center Wildlife Sanctuary (BNC) has been named one of only three finalists in the Boston - region Cox Conserves Heroes program, organized through WFXT - TV Fox 25.
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«This work not only helps us understand why orangutan abundance varies between sites, but also suggests a mechanism through which forest degradation may reduce the number of orangutans that can be supported in an area because of the quality of foods available,» said Harrison, managing director of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project and an honorary visiting fellow at the University of Leicester.
The oat crown rust study was supported by the USDA - ARS - The University of Minnesota Standard Cooperative Agreement (3002 -11031-00053115), The University of Minnesota Experimental Station USDA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch Funds (project MIN -22-058) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the USDA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2017 -67012-26117), a CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Australian Grains Research Development Corporation (grant #US00067) and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.
When they plugged individual species data for vertebrates that depend on the tropical forest for food and shelter and deforestation patterns from 1970 to 2008 into their model, it projected that 80 — 90 % of extinctions caused by previous rainforest loss are yet to come.
They include projects that link human health to healthy forests, such as the Health In Harmony project in Indonesia, or, closer to home, the Hudson River Valley's Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and its Young Farmers Conference.
ClimateAdaptAsia: Determinants and Effectiveness of Local - Level Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Studies of Two Bangladesh ministries, including the ministries of agriculture, environment and forest, water, health, rural development, food and disaster management, children and women affairs, relevant departments and NGOs have been implementing a number of local level adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources [continue reading...]
Evan Ratliff, «The Green Wall of China,» Wired, April 2003; Wang Yan, «China's Forest Shelter Project Dubbed «Green Great Wall»,» Xinhua News Agency, 9 July 2006; Sun Xiufang and Ralph Bean, China Solid Wood Products Annual Report 2002 (Beijing: USDA, 2002); Jonathan Watts, «China Suspends Reforestation Project over Food Shortage Fears,» Guardian (London), 23 June 2009.
Back in March of last year, I posted on a project by UMass Amherst students to convert a campus lawn into an edible food forest and no - dig permaculture garden.