Blog for People, Food and Nature

May 8, 2013

Hybridizing Technology: The Case of Rice Farming in Nepal

By Rajendra Uprety, Irrigation Specialist, Asia Youth Exchange Programme One of the important, underlying principles of an integrated landscape approach is using participatory processes. Through his experience working with the Nepalese District Agriculture Development Office (DADO), today’s guest author Rajendra Uprety discovered the value of local input and joint learning to ...
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May 6, 2013

It's Complicated: Landscape Diversity for Pest Control

By Wei Zhang, Research Fellow, and Mark Rosegrant, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC On the Landscapes Blog we’ve seen how diversity on the farm level to diversity at the scale of a whole landscape can provide the natural benefits from healthy ecosystems. Two researchers from the [&hel ...
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May 3, 2013

When New Age Technology Meets Old World Farming: ICT in Action

The 21st century has brought countless examples of technological innovations that have changed the way we interact with the world. Great strides over the past decade in both the access to and development of information and communication technology (ICT) – including mobile phones, GPS Systems, barcode scanners,  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and smartcard readers – ...
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May 1, 2013

Taking Care of Business: Landscape Approaches to Reduce Risk

From beer brewing in Bogota to mochas in Mexico, for the past few weeks the Landscapes Blog has covered the role of landscape approaches in business operations and supply chains, in light of the Landscapes Initiative’s release of Reducing Risk: Landscape Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing. Across the cases reviewed in this project, this theme of […] ...
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