Fish Crime Symposium, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 20 – Bernard Liedemann from DAFF SA – Whistleblowers, Co-operation with US, Maritime Crime, Organised crime
COP 20 Lima US Center Panel Presenter on: Ocean acidification & upwelling impacts on the El Locos fishing region in Chile & other coastal Latin American countries. Dr Laura Ramajo has studied ocean acidification from the warm Meditteranean Sea to the cold Pacific ocean. For the last 7 years researchers have been investigating ocean acidification […]
At COP 22 Agriculture Day – Science to Action presentation, Dr Rob Bertram, Chief Scientist at USAID Bureau for Food Security, speaks on Adapting to Climate Change in Africa : from Science to Farmers. Firstly, I would like to congratulate the Kingdom of Morocco in raising the profile “Agriculture” in the context of the global […]
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 21: Community Natural Resource Management, Integrated Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Hindu Cush Himalayas, Ashok Ram, Warden NMCA
COP 16 CANCUN. Speaker on drastic action required to reduce CO2 emissions, loss of 40% of ocean phytoplankton since 1950, increasing ocean acidification and global environmental destruction.
In our follow up interview with bee researcher, Ms Jenny Cullinan, (co-founder of UJUBEE), we covered Disease in bees, Artificial insemination versus natural breeding and Self medicating to maintain healthy immune systems in the colonies, and in this final interview we conclude with protection of bees (legislation), biodiversity and healthy environments for bees and creation […]
Mother Channels interviews soil scientist, Christopher Martius, (Principal Scientist Climate Change, CIFOR) on the possibility of nurturing soil microbes to sequester carbon, at COP 22, Marrakech. In destroying ecosystems, e.g. cutting down forests and managing agricultural soils unsustainably, the globe has been losing a significant quantity of soil carbon over the last 8000 years, since […]
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 5 – Marcel Cruse – Indian Ocean Smart Fish Project – This is a programme for the Implementation of a Regional Fisheries Strategy for the Eastern and Southern Africa – Indian Ocean Region
BREDASDORP AGRI-SHOW, Western Cape, South Africa. Interview with Gerhard Koen from GeoAgro Africa & BioFarm Solutions on: Satellite food crop monitoring systems for farmers, sustainable farming without chemical fertilisers, utilising natural microbes to restore soil health & the optimisation of healthy food crop production.
Ocean Acidification – Alicia Harold Carly, a Marine Scientist from Oceana.org, discusses how the acidification of oceans is leading to negative impacts on marine species, crashes in marine ecosystems and a decline in coral reefs.
COP 20 Lima US Center Panel Presenters Natalya Gallo (Scripps Inst.), Nelson A. Lagos (CiCC) on: Ocean acidification, ocean deoxygenation & upwelling impacts on the marine eco-systems & communities that depend on sea harvesting for their livelihoods. This can be associated with the impacts of climate change and/or greater CO2 content in the atmosphere driving […]
At COP 22 Agriculture Day – Science to Action presentation, Prof. Rattan Lal of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Centre at Ohio State University, speaks on the Sustainable Management of Soil Carbon and Soil Health in Africa and the establishment of soil thresholds in the root zone of Africa. In addressing soil carbon and soil […]