By GAIL LICHTMAN http://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/InJerusalem/Article.aspx?id=176770 05/28/2010 22:43 As Jerusalem joins the Local Action for Biodiversity network, 40 of the city’s urban nature sites are granted protection. For years, the study of biodiversity – the variety of life on Earth – was thought to lie in remote areas of our planet untouched by human hands, such as […]

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Conservation Agriculture A pathway towards sustainable agriculture http://www.mectat.com.lb/metopic/ConservationAgri/ConservationAgri.htm May 2010 By: Berthold Hansman and Boghos Ghougassian Conventional agricultural practices in the world, such as tillage, have led into the deterioration and degradation of soils and decrease in their productivity. It became more and more evident that the existing production systems are no longer sustainable and […]

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