(Par 5.1.4.1.1) Eif Assists Think Namibia Aquaponics Systems Project
https://allafrica.com/stories/202105180221.html New Era (Windhoek) 17 MAY 2021 On Tuesday, 30 March 2021, the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia joined the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF), parliament of the Republic of Namibia, Embassy of Finland and Think Namibia Aquaponics at the HSF Aquaponics Project and first pilot aquaponics system at Aris Primary School, which is located approximately […]
(par 5.1.4.1.1) Managing Agricultural Waste
http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2017/agriculture/ Background As the global population increases, the demand for food does as well. However, current agricultural practices damage the environment through four large sources of pollution. First, fertilizer runoff, where rainwater carries with it excess fertilizers into lakes and rivers, causes eutrophication (the overgrowth of algae that deplete bodies of water of oxygen). Second, […]
(par 5.1.4.1.1) The New Agricultural Revolution
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-new-agricultural-revolution By CHARLIE BURTON, 17 Nov 2010 Smartphone-controlled tractors that steer themselves via GPS. Intelligent sensors that know precisely how much fertiliser to spray. Precision agriculture lets farmers tame nature with data — thus boosting their crops it’s a sun-soaked August afternoon in Geneseo, Iowa, and Clay Mitchell is driving his crop sprayer down a poker-straight […]