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While Asia has the world's fastest-growing economy, 29 of 48 countries assessed by the Asian Water Development Outlook are water-insecure, posing a threat to the region's continued growth. As economies develop, increasing demands will be placed on water for food and water for energy. In the irrigation subsector, energy is required for ground and surface water pumping, as well as for fueling on-farm irrigation technology and other farm machinery. Water...
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Climate change and declining water resources threaten food production systems worldwide, increasing the need for efficient agricultural processes. The Shanxi Province of the People's Republic of China has been experiencing declining groundwater tables since 1956. This publication provides examples of how the Asian Development Bank's development support met the rising challenges in water security, food production, and climate change faced by communities...
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Que peut apporter le maraîchage biologique à votre projet coopératif? Qu'il s'agisse d'organiser le quotidien familial, le travail d'un groupe de musiciens ou une entreprise maraîchère professionnelle, ce livre vous aidera à préparer pour votre aventure un terrain sain, bienveillant et fertile. En route pour la ferme du Héron, une coopérative de six maraîchers pratiquant l'agroécologie. Saison après saison, vous découvrirez la nécessité...
4) How to Use Vegetable Oil as Fuel for Your Diesel Engine: Introduction to the Elaboration of Biodiese
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The increasing need for cleaner and sustainable energies provoked by the contamination emitted to the atmosphere made by petrol sources had made biodiesel an option to reduce those emissions by using a renewable, clean product as vegetable to impulse diesel engines. There are some main advantages of biodiesel is that it can be used in existing engines, vehicles, and infrastructure with practically no changes. Biodiesel can be pumped, stored and burned...
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Mark Nelson, PhD, has worked for several decades in closed ecological systems research. As one of eight brave souls enclosed in the pioneering Biosphere 2 experiment for two years in 1991-1993, Nelson learned first-hand how essential the proper use of human waste is to the health of the planet. This realization, combined with his lifelong love affair with constructed wetlands, led to the development of Wastewater Gardens, an ecological way to treat...
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On sait quelle a été l'admirable évolution de la médecine et de la chirurgie depuis qu'elles ont été éclairées par le génie de notre illustre compatriote, Pasteur; on sait que les pansements antiseptiques, la découverte des vaccins, ont préservé de la mort des millions d'êtres vivants ; on sait encore que nombre d'industries, la fabrication de la bière, celle du vinaigre, ont acquis des méthodes sûres de travail ; on espère que bientt...
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Malgré une augmentation continue de la production alimentaire et des progrès certains dans sa distribution et son utilisation, la situation mondiale de l'alimentation est préoccupante, l'expansion restant globalement inférieure à l'accroissement de la population. Pour nourrir la population mondiale...
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Compost is a type of organic matter that is rich in humus and plant nutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). NPK content of compost varies from 1.5-0.5-1.0 to 3.5-1.0-2.0 depending upon the organic waste materials and manures used for making compost. The process of making compost is called composting.
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The text was written for students in colleges of agriculture as well as others with an interest in engines and motor vehicles. Although the primary focus is on engines and farm tractors, many of the concepts also apply to automobiles, trucks, self-propelled farm machinery, lawn and garden tractors, and other vehicles. Updates include new governmental regulations, new technological developments, and illustrations. Chapters include thermodynamics of...
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Extrait: "Certaines matières minérales sont abondantes sur des points déterminés du globe et manquent complètement ailleurs: d'autres se rencontrent très fréquemment, mais toujours en petites quantités. L'or, par exemple, est de ces dernières: il n'existe peut-être pas de sable qui ne contienne un peu d'or..."
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a wide-ranging and substantial impact on the water sector in Asia and the Pacific. This guidance note focuses on how service providers-particular those involved in supply, sanitation, and wastewater treatment-have been affected and the response measures they have undertaken. It also identifies potential pathways to shape a post-pandemic recovery for the sector and the role of the Asian Development...
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Mongolia's mining-based economic development and the sustainability of its urban economies depend on both water and energy. The examination of the water energy nexus in two river basins in Mongolia shows that water availability is the binding constraint as energy facilities, mining operations, agriculture, and urban water users compete for scarce water resources. Development of new technologies for efficient water and energy use, introduction of renewable...
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This publication continues the Asian Development Bank's analysis of lake and wetland rehabilitation in the People's Republic of China. It examines how the current situation in the Chao Lake Basin compares with international thinking on the conditions necessary for sustainable management of lake basins. The analysis highlights that the creation of the Chao Lake Management Authority (CLMA) and the formulation of the master plan do not mean the problem...
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Commonly, we think of soil as just a medium to walk above or build upon. If we had the ability to shrink ourselves to the size of a soil particle, we would be amazed at the vibrant life and ever-changing interactions taking place all around us. The activity, physical changes and diverse life forms would overwhelm the senses. Soil moisture fuels this activity. The soil and water dynamic together as one entity is both the introduction and ending of...
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Perhaps no issue casts a harsher light on social inequities than the growing number of people who go hungry everyday. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), more people go hungry in the world today than at any time since 1970. An estimated 1.02 billion people were undernourished worldwide in 2009, 642 million of whom lived in Asia and the Pacific, the FAO reports. Access to food-or food security-has become...
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In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and the enduring partnership between racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals in the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation slavery. In response, they imagined agrotopias-sustainable societies unaffected...
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Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about black gold," scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world climate change and the hunger crisis can be solved by it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing this black soil has been revealed and it is a secret...
18) Net Zero
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What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done. In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change. Net Zero is Professor...
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