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By Emily Alpert
Smallholder farmers in Africa are no strangers to climate change. The first impacts can already be felt. Erratic rainfall, shorter growing seasons and prolonged droughts mean that crops suffer, as do the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. To meet the demands of a growing global and African population, crop productivity will have to be increased. Under climate change conditions, this will have to be achieved with fewer resources and smarter interventions. Seeds, superfoods, and soils all offer some solutions.
Seeds
Farmer resilience to climate change can be strengthened in many ways: income diversification, secure land rights or better access to insurance policies are all examples. Resilience can also come in the form of a seed.
Drought-tolerant maize varieties hope to do just that. These seeds are bred with the ability to withstand periods of low and erratic rainfall. The public-private partnership Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA)…
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Green has been the in-vogue colour for new developments for several years and it looks like it will remain that way. Of course it’s not the colour green, but the concept of adding living foliage to buildings which, due to the increasingly accepted fact that we need to be more sustainable in our buildings, has become increasingly an increasingly commonplace technique.
With open green spaces in urban conurbations reducing as buildings, roads and hard surfacing increase, it is crucial that we find ways to ensure that flora is incorporated in some way. Plants have a vital role to play in tackling pollution, reducing ambient temperature, and encouraging insects, birds and animals that are important to even the urban environment. But with lack of floor space, one obvious solution is to think vertically instead of laterally, because we have a great deal of square footage of wall space that can, and…
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All the best old fellah..remember to keep cool in the promised heat wave this week!
I had an interesting trip to a Tree Nursery on Tuesday.
Big trees require big carriers…
‘Snap’ the Famous Norwich Dragon, is currently here for some spa treatment from our conservators. He is looking pretty happy about the whole experience! Have a look at his special horse shoe teeth that make that distinctive SNAP!
We are also looking after his poor cousin too, who seems less happy with his treatment!
The statue of Christopher High and two of his sons arrived today. It has been created for us by Alan Herriot, and captures the moment when the farmer has to leave his young son at the workhouse as he can no longer afford to look after him. It will eventually be placed in the main courtyard.
Some of our previous statues are not very impressed…..
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