Pasture,Cropland and Forest Scenarios in Industrial and Developing Regions
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
Galloway et al., 2004
Washington Post
Karen DeYoung
Fresh-water shortages and more droughts and floods will increase the likelihood that water will be used as a weapon between states or to further terrorist aims in key strategic areas, including the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, a U.S.
JOANNA M. FOSTER
In 2008 and in 2011, the world was rocked by riots and by revolutions coinciding with spikes in food prices.
reuters // Reuters
LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday.
Nikita Mehta
India’s forest cover decreased by 367 square kilometers between 2007 and 2009, and it was primarily tribal and hilly regions that were to blame, according to the biennial forest survey released last week by the Ministry of Environment and Forest.
Eric Hilaire
Photographer Peter Caton talks about his visit to the Cerrado – the world's largest savannah. It contains 5% of the world's biodiversity, but is being destroyed at an incredible rate to make way for monocultures that may have devastating long-term effects.
A global partnership is needed to tackle the desertification that degrades more than 12m hectares of arable land every year, affecting some of the poorest and most food-insecure people
NASA
SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, is one of the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Luckily, the legend is color coded, and this makes my job so much easier.
the red are the areas filled with sugarcane residue
the green are th emajor rice huck production places
the yellow are the main production places for corn cobs