As we tomorrow , 17 June, mark the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, the challenges are becoming increasingly visible. Yet we keep on fighting. For climate resilience, for biodiversity, and for the future of these landscapes, giving up is simply not an option. 💪
https://www.bbcamping.eu/reflections/world-day-to-combat-desertification-and-drought/
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Soil Health and Climate Resilience | World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
On World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, we look at our terrain and our efforts to improve soil health and aid to its resilience of under increasing climate stress.
Saving water can be cheaper than building it. One analysis found ag conservation at ~$69.89/acre-foot vs >$2,000 for new supply—so funders now want telemetry-backed proof, not just pipes.
https://agtech.industryexaminer.com/pipes-to-proof-irrigation-funding-telemetry-efficiency/#AgTech #WaterManagement #Irrigation #PrecisionAg #DroughtResilience #technews
From pipes to proof: why irrigation grants now demand hard data - Agtech Industry Examiner
In southern Idaho, an irrigation district installed four flow meters and discovered something awkward: a big gap between the water […]
#Irrigation’s next upgrade may be chemistry—not hardware. Loveland’s AQUA FORCE targets the root zone: IRF’s 2024 irrigated corn work showed ~+9 bu/acre on average. The bigger story is verification—yield per inch, pump hours, moisture curves
https://agtech.industryexaminer.com/aqua-force-water-use-efficiency-irrigation-adjuvant/#AgTech #Irrigation #WaterManagement #PrecisionAg #Agronomy #Corn #DroughtResilience #FarmInputs #TechNews 【🎉Latest accepted article】
Invasive plants exhibit stronger root-shoot ratio plasticity than natives under #AbioticStress: Insights from meta-analysis and experiments
#InvasiveSpecies | #PhenotypicPlasticity | #ResourceAllocation | #DroughtResilience | #HeavyMetalTolerance
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf217
An early start to Solarpunk Sunday.
More tomorrow.
At the Meise Botanic Garden you can see wild banana varieties, some originally collected in Papua New Guinea, through the Crop Wild Relatives Project, used in pre-breeding research to help make cultivated bananas more tolerant to drought.
https://www.plantentuinmeise.be/
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Plantentuin Meise
Plantentuin Meise, een 92 hectare grote groene oase, vlak bij Brussel, waar 20 000 plantensoorten groeien uit de hele wereld. Kom genieten van de groei en bloei, van geur en kleur, van weelde en afwis…
Nature’s underground engineers: how plant roots could save harvests from drought | The-14
Many people think of plants as nice-looking greens. Essential for clean air, yes, but simple organisms. A step change in research is shaking up the way scientists think about plants: they are far more complex and more like us than you might imagine. This blossoming field of science is too delightful to do it justice
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