Pepper Crop under Climate Change: Grafting as an Environmental Friendly Strategy

Trautbuck Project Uganda (TPU) is a registered local NGO reg: 11800 and later a social business enterprise, established in 2012, having constructed over 30 Biogas Plants in and outside Uganda as a consortium and or as a individual firm added to its experience, with an aim of improving health of grass root communities using an environmental friendly and sustainable approach. TPU addresses the most urgent and critical issues of our time as a movement of common cause and reconciliation using a multi sector approach combined with unifying values and principles.

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Impacts of agriculture and forestry in the control of climate change: The role of extension services

International Journal on Integrated Education ◽

10.31149/ijie.v3i10.681 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (10) ◽

pp. 71-75

Author(s):

Yusuf A.S ◽

Adeyemi T.O ◽

Adeleye A.S ◽

Bakpolor V.R ◽

Adegboyega D.A ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Review Paper ◽

Cropping Pattern ◽

Efficiency Improvement ◽

Extension Services ◽

Forestry Practices ◽

Environmental Friendly ◽

The Impact ◽

Agro Forestry

Climate change is recognized as an important issue at the center of world discussion. The importance of agriculture and forestry in the control or mitigation of climate is an important issue that has gained a lot of attention recently. Climate smart agricultural and forestry practices a situation where practices that will promote mitigation and reduce emission towards a better food security and environmental friendly weather are considered in this review paper. Also the role played by extension workers was also discussed. Climate smart agricultural and forestry practices such as planting of drought resistant crops, changes in cropping pattern, irrigation efficiency improvement, afforestation and agro-forestry were elucidated. It was concluded that an extensive extension service that will adequately educate and reach out to stakeholders at all levels will improve capacity to control the impact of climate change.

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Lightweight timber-framed wall and impact of ventilated cladding on the possibility of reducing summer overheating in Central Europe

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202017203009 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 172 ◽

pp. 03009

Author(s):

Peter Juras

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Central Europe ◽

Experimental Measurement ◽

Thermal Protection ◽

Thermal Capacity ◽

Building Envelopes ◽

Timber Frame ◽

The Past ◽

Environmental Friendly ◽

Load Carrying

The climate change creates specific problems in the countries, where it was not so hot during the summer periods in the past. In the area of building envelopes, use of more environmental friendly materials comes to the foreground. Having still more strictly requirements in the thermal protection of buildings, use of lightweight wooden walls is increasing. The ratio between load carrying and insulating parts changed. This is also the advantage of timber framed walls. These walls have also some negatives, or create some problems, such as low thermal capacity. In the Central Europe, the indoor summer overheating started to be a serious problem. In this paper, impact of ventilated cladding on the timber frame wooden wall will be analyzed. One composition, with east and south orientation were evaluated. This wall is a part of the experimental measurement, compared with another ETICS type of outdoor finishing layer. Impact of the ventilated air cavity behind the cladding on the thermal regime of the wall is stated.

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Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20190063 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

pp. 723-729

Author(s):

Roslyn Gleadow ◽

Jim Hanan ◽

Alan Dorin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Computer Simulation ◽

Food Security ◽

European Countries ◽

Plant Interactions ◽

Plant Insect Interactions ◽

Native Habitat ◽

Insect Pollinators ◽

Insect Interactions

Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduction of agricultural monocultures, and the destruction of insect native habitat, are all potential contributors to this grave situation. Some researchers are working towards a future where natural insect pollinators might be replaced with free-flying robotic bees, an ecologically problematic proposal. We argue instead that creating environments that are friendly to bees and exploring the use of other species for pollination and bio-control, particularly in non-European countries, are more ecologically sound approaches. The computer simulation of insect-plant interactions is a far more measured application of technology that may assist in managing, or averting, ‘Insect Armageddon' from both practical and ethical viewpoints.

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Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20180113 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 221-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rebecca Millington ◽

Peter M. Cox ◽

Jonathan R. Moore ◽

Gabriel Yvon-Durocher

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Diffusion Rate ◽

Individual Species ◽

Genetic Evolution ◽

Rates Of Change ◽

Rapid Climate Change ◽

Warming Climate ◽

Intraspecies Competition ◽

High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

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