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Looking back, looking ahead: Local perspectives on landscape changes and native‐tree restoration in Madagascar

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Across sub‐Saharan Africa, tree‐based restoration efforts are dominated by exotic tree species due to their rapid biomass accumulation and short‐term economic returns. However, their limited contribution to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has renewed interest in native‐tree restoration as a more sustainable strategy.
Herimino Manoa Rajaonarivelo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La biodiversité au service du goût. Quelle place pour les anciennes variétés de fruits et de légumes ?

open access: yesIn Situ, 2019
Our present-day society is increasingly standardised and wasteful of resources and is witnessing a disturbing loss of biodiversity. In reaction to this, more and more concerned citizens are trying to reduce their environmental footprint by concrete ...
Gilles Debarle
doaj   +1 more source

Social‐ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building environmental awareness with elementary school students in an area of high agricultural production/Construindo sensibilização ambiental com alunos do ensino fundamental em zona de alta produção agrícola

open access: yesDiversitas Journal, 2020
Actions involving change of attitude in the context of environmental issues, it is a challenge to be applied in school environments. This research sought through a project, in partnership with Clube Amigos da Terra - CAT, to promote the process of ...
Tatiana Tereza Ferreira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhance food plant diversity conservation and use through greater coordination between genebanks and botanic gardens

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury   +35 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of different salt, biostimulant and temperature levels on seed germination of some vegetable species

open access: yesActa Agrobotanica, 2013
This research was conducted to determine the effects of two biostimulants (humic acid and biozyme) or three different salt (NaCl) concentrations at the temperature 10, 15, 20 and 25°C on parsley, leek, celery, tomato, onion, lettuce, basil, radish and ...
Ertan Yildirim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Home Vegetable Garden

open access: yesJournal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1918
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +2 more sources

Journal of the New York Botanical Garden

open access: yes, 1918
A Winter Collecting Trip in Florida; The Herbaceous Grounds; Location of Four Picnic Grounds; The Home Vegetable Garden; Tree-planting for Forests; Hardy Woody Plants in the New York Botanical Garden; Conference Notes for February; Notes, News and ...

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