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  • From: joao pedro goncalves <joaovox@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers
  • Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:17:42 +0000

Ler o livro aqui:

Read the book here:

https://books.google.pt/books?id=fv2GAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false





http://www.garynabhan.com/news/2010/11/our-farm/

https://www.garynabhan.com/news/2013/03/growing-food-in-a-hotter-drier-land/

How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants,
and create natural diversity
With climatic uncertainty now “the new normal,” many farmers,
gardeners, and orchardists in North America are desperately seeking
ways to adapt how they grow food in the face of climate change. The
solutions may be at our back door.

In Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land, Nabhan, one of the world’s
experts on the agricultural traditions of arid lands, draws from the
knowledge of traditional farmers in the Gobi Desert, the Arabian
Peninsula, the Sahara Desert, and Andalusia, as well as the Sonoran,
Chihuahuan, and Painted deserts of North America to offer time-tried
strategies, including:

Building greater moisture-holding capacity and nutrients in soils;
Protecting fields from damaging winds, drought, and floods;
Reducing heat stress on crops and livestock;
Harvesting water from uplands to use in rain gardens and terraces
filled with perennial crops;
Selecting fruits, nuts, succulents, and herbaceous perennials that
are best suited to warmer, drier climates; and,
Keeping pollinators in pace and in place with arid-adapted crop plants.

“Emulating and refining these adaptations may help us secure food in
the face of climate change,” writes Nabhan.

A certain type of agricultural history was made in 2011 when more than
500 food-producing counties in the continental United States were
declared parts of disaster areas because they suffered weather-related
crop failures. The searing heat waves and dry conditions suffered
across seven-tenths of the United States during the summer of 2012
proved even more devastating: 2,228 counties were designated as
federal disaster areas, where crops and livestock were either severely
affected or lost to drought.

This practical book is replete with detailed descriptions and diagrams
showing how to implement desert-adapted practices in your own
backyard, orchard, or farm to mitigate the impact of these rapid
changes. It also includes colorful “parables from the field” that
exemplify how desert farmers think about increasing the carrying
capacity and resilience of the lands and waters they steward.

This unique book is useful not only for farmers and permaculturists in
the arid reaches of the Southwest or other desert regions. Its
techniques and prophetic vision for achieving food security in the
face of climate change may well need to be implemented across most of
North America over the next half-century, and are already applicable
in most of the semiarid West, Great Plains, and Southwest and adjacent
regions of Mexico.




--
João Gonçalves
http://ecotrabalho.com
http://permacultureglobal.com/users/902-joao-goncalves
+ 351 96 96 80 009
Alcântara - Lisboa e Chão Sobral - Oliveira do Hospital - Serra do Açor -
Portugal

"Hoje, ao escolher o que comer e o que comprar está a decidir se os seus
filhos vão herdar um planeta em melhor ou pior estado daquele que você
encontrou."

"Today as you choose what to eat and what to buy you decide if your
children will inherit a planet in a better or worse shape than you found
it."

Para descobrir:
Documentário "Alface" na Aldeia das Amoreiras
http://vimeo.com/58999047
Herdade do Freixo do Meio
http://herdadedofreixodomeio.pt/
"Comida que nunca acaba" / Permacultura no Malawi
http://www.neverendingfood.org/
Centro de Ecologia Integral
http://www.integralecology.org
Nyumbani - Kenya
http://www.nyumbani.org/about-us



  • [permaculture] Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers, joao pedro goncalves, 12/13/2016

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