If the FAO wished to accomplish food security, it would promote improved governance, land rights, the availability of inputs, credit and transparent markets. Instead, though, we get a bunch of blather from politocrats. Politocrats versus Pragmatists There were high hopes when Graziano da Silva became director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), but he has proven to be the same thin gruel as his predecessor. Last year's buzz term for feeding the world and concurrently saving the environment was "sustainable intensification," and this week da Silva massaged it into "climate-smart agriculture" to fit the theme of his green "civil society" audience in Brussels. He waxed about the need for "equitable increases in agricul...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Lobelia (/loʊˈbiːliə, lə-/[4][5][6]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species,[7] with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.[8] They are known g...
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Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.