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Update. "#USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites"
politico.com/news/2025/01/31/u…
"Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO...."
#Agriculture #Censorship #Climate #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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...excess water from flooded fields during the rainy season, facilitating agricultural productivity."
I don't recall having read anything about #monoculture during the #PreColumbian period in #SouthAmerica, granted, but *unique?*
Just have a cursory look at my older thread on #WaruWaru and judge for yourself.
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Attached: 2 images Part 2: #SolutionsForClimateChange: #Agrivoltaics (1/8) Combining the new solar-panel-above fields method* with ancient raised-field #WaruWaru #farming #technology could facilitate #WaterConservation and management, raise yields,…Mastodon
*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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...in #Bolivia.
The article, in my view, however, 👉grossly misstates the importance of the find:👈
"...#UmbertoLombardo, an environmental #archaeologist at the #UAB [#AutonomousUniversityOfBarcelona], has identified a 👉unique agricultural infrastructure previously undocumented anywhere else in the world.👈
This system enabled them to drain...
*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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...research [2023] dates the irrigated, raised-field technology in #SouthAmerica even earlier, 👉to 850 to 1,000 BCE.👈 There were several advanced #WaterManagement system in several regions of #SouthAmerica (#ChacrasHundidas / #ProducciónEnAndenes.)
The new research focuses on a 👉much later period, between 500 and 1400 *A.D.*👈. Moreover,
the #Casarabe people (only) lived in part of that region, the Llanos de #Moxos,...
*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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New findings in #Nature and phys.org?
I'm neither an #archeologist, nor an engineer, but assuming that the the peer-reviewed article on phys.org does not omit any central aspects of the study in #Nature, it seems 👉rather narrow-minded in geographic and historic scope.👈
"Culturas hidráulicas de #Moxos"/ #Camellones" / #Sucacollos, / #WaruWaru, the latest...
phys.org/news/2025-01-discover…
Discovery of a unique drainage and irrigation system that gave way to the 'Neolithic Revolution' in the Amazon
A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a discovery by a team of researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and …Autonomous University of Barcelona (Phys.org)
Agriculture secretary oversees food production, rural life, and nutrition programs that help millions afford healthy diets
The USDA oversees food production and much more. However, it has little direct power to reduce food prices – a centerpiece of President Trump’s campaign.The Conversation
"Yet I don’t think he can dial it back. He can call off his tariffs, claiming to have won big concessions from Canada and Mexico, or grant tariff exemptions to his friends, turning them into one more instrument of corruption. But his screeds against immigrants have, I believed, unleashed forces of hatred that he can’t rein in. And these forces will make America poorer as well as uglier."
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #agriculture #FoodSupply #economy #construction #housing
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"At a time when Americans are still angry about the price of groceries and, with more justification, about the unaffordability of housing, Trump’s immigrant crackdown seems set to hobble food production and home construction."
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #agriculture #FoodSupply #economy #construction #housing
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Bird flu flares up again in Michigan poultry – an infectious disease expert explains the risk to humans, chickens, cows and other animals
Officials have confirmed eight new outbreaks in Michigan poultry flocks since mid-December.The Conversation
Rural America’s economies are often left out by a design flaw in federal funding
Many small towns rely on one major industry and can face long-term existential shocks if that industry fails. Biden’s attempt to reposition rural economies for the future missed a crucial factor.The Conversation
#vineyard #countryside #agriculture
“We spend billions of dollars to find life on other planets
and trillions of dollars killing life on this one.”
#MeatIndustry #FactoryFarming #Agriculture #hunting #pesticides #herbicides #killing