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Category Archives: Agro-eco

Massive Green Infrastructure along the Servern Estuary brings additional benefits

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With sea-level rise threatening more frequent and higher coastal surges a brave and innovative project has been completed that uses ecological infrastructure to protect the land and people of the […]

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Agro-eco, Business and biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Green intrastructure

UN REDD+ and the Green Economy

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A new publication by UNEP on developments around REDD+ makes interesting reading. The original Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) proposition emerged from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change […]

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Agro-eco, Biodiversity and carbon, Biodiversity policy, Business and biodiversity, Ecosystem services, News

National Pollinator Strategy

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Back in April I reported on the criticism by the Westminster Environmental Committee of the Secretary of State for Environment. This was in regard to the reluctance of the English […]

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Agro-eco, Biodiversity policy, Ecosystem services, News

Pressures on pollinators, responses and action

April 22, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield 3 Comments

The threat of the collapse in pollinating insect populations is confirmed as a worldwide problem according to the latest meta-review of research literature. Threats to an ecosystem service: Pressures on […]

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Agro-eco, Biodiversity policy, Ecosystem services, News, Science

Westminster: Environment Audit Committee stings like a bee

April 5, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield 1 Comment

“More research is needed to monitor pollinator populations and establish the impact that particular pesticides are having, but Defra must not use this as an excuse to avoid urgent precautionary […]

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Agro-eco, Biodiversity policy, News, Science

London media students engage with biodiversity issues

March 7, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity at its meeting in Nagoya in 2010 identified as its first strategic goal the need to mainstream biodiversity understanding by 2020. Achieving this will […]

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Agro-eco, Arts, Engagement, News
Rice

Soil biodiversity creates a rice production revolution

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Hardly known in the west a revolution is taking place across the rice-producing world – and the secret lies in enabling soil biodiversity to thrive. The method, known as the System of Rice […]

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Agro-eco, Business and biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Health & well-being, Informal learning, News, Science

No flies on bio-diverse fields

February 19, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

A recent article in Plos One highlights how organic farming favours insects, and therefore insect pollinated plants in meadows and wheat fields.  The study explored nine different landscapes under different levels […]

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Agro-eco, Ecosystem services, News, Science

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