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Conservation policies that boost farm yields may ultimately undermine forest protection, argues study
2013-04-17 07:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Rising agricultural profitability due to higher prices, improved crop productivity, and forest conservation itself could make it increasingly difficult for conservation programs tied to payments for ecosystem services to succeed, warns a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The prediction is based on a model that forecasts the potential impact of agricultural intensification on small farmers' behavior in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)....
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Escalating cost of forest conservation
2013-04-17 04:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage conservation. However, a research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) revealed that in the long run, conservation incentives may struggle to compete with future agricultural yields. Their findings were first published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 15 April 2013. Financial incentives for conservation...
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White House Budget: USDA, Crop Insurance & Conservation Take Hits
2013-04-15 23:12:00| Beef
David Bennett The White House budget proposal for 2014 would do away with direct payments to farmers and slash funding for USDA. The 6% proposed cut to USDA coffers joins other proposals such as lowering crop insurance subsidies and conservation program funding. read more
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ETwater Takes The Lead On Water Conservation With High Technology Irrigation Management For Outdoor Landscapes
2013-04-08 04:17:59| pollutiononline News Articles
Acterra has announced that ETwater has been selected to receive a2013 Business Environmental Awardin the category of Environmental Innovation for its cloud-based smart irrigation management solution that consistently saves a proven 20-50% in outdoor landscape water use
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Conservation gets boost from new Landsat satellite
2013-04-03 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Efforts to monitor the world's forests and other ecosystems got a big boost in February with the launch of Landsat 8, NASA's newest earth observation satellite, which augments the crippled Landsat 7 currently orbiting Earth (technically Landsat 8 is still named the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) and will remain so until May when the USGS turns control of the satellite over to NASA). Last week Landsat 8/LDCM sent back its first image, showing the meeting of the Great Plains with the Front...
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