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Eco-efficient Crop & Livestock Production for Nicaraguan Farmers
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kitty Stapp on March 5th, 2015
Inter Press Service: For Roberto Pineda, a smallholder farmer in the Somotillo municipality of Nicaragua, his traditional practice after each harvest was to cut down and burn all crop residues on his land, a practice known as "slash-and-burn" agriculture.
A widespread practice on these sub-humid hillsides of Central America, it was nonetheless causing many negative environmental implications, including poor soil quality, erosion, nutrient leaching, and the loss of ecosystem diversity. Slash-and-burn allows farmers...
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First Phase of Global Fracking Expansion: Ensuring Friendly Legislation
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kitty Stapp on December 1st, 2014
Inter Press Service: Multinational oil and gas companies are engaged in a quiet but broad attempt to prepare the groundwork for a significant global expansion of shale gas development, according to a study released Monday.
Thus far, the hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") technologies that have upended the global gas market have been used primarily in North America and, to a lesser extent, Europe. With U.S. gas production in particular having expanded exponentially in recent years, however, countries around the world...