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Desertification and poverty, agriculture and horticulture in the drylands

Xeriscaping: Gardening in Seasons of Drought (Google / gardening-techniques.suite101)
11 10 2008 Neither the pleasure of gardening, nor an outstanding appearance of one’slandscape has to be abandoned in seasons of drought.

A tool to assess the risk of desertification (Google / Innovations Report)
11 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.innovationsreport.de/html/berichte/umwelt_naturschutz/a_tool_assess_risk_desertification_119976.htmlA tool to assess the risk of desertificationResearchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have established a method based on dynamic simulation models to define the indicators for the risk of desertification of a particular region in the long term, thus forecasting whether or not the current situation [...]

Tech-savvy Australia computes drought solutions (Google / Circle of Blue/Water News)
10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - droughthttp://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/asia-pacific/tech-savvy-australia-computes-drought-solutions/Tech-savvy Australia computes drought solutionsCould technology help alleviate the dilemma facing the Murray-Darling River Basin? Professor Gary Jones of eWater Cooperative Research Centre thinks it can and now he has six million dollars to prove it. RiverManager, a forecasting tool that connects groundwater data with surface water science, [...]

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