Green fodder from energy forest farming

Forest Farming Practices

Forest farming in North America is becoming popular as a way for landowners to diversify income opportunities, improve management of forest resources, and increase biological diversity. People have been informally " farming the forests " for generations. However, in recent years, attention has been directed at formalizing forest farming and improving it through research and development activiti...

Green Investment Funds: Organic Farming

Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern Mexico

Worldwide the search is on for sustainable solutions to the competing needs for forest conservation and agricultural development. A strategy with contemporary salience arises in intensive, sedentarized agriculture that can protect forests and enhance livelihoods for forest dwellers. This paper investigates why intensive agriculture does not limit deforestation in southeastern Mexico’s Calakmul ...

Materials , Chemicals and Energy from Forest Biomass

This book will explore our forests as the most readily available and renewable source of carbon as well as the building block of chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals as the next 100 years gradually push consumers toward alternate sources of chemicals. Meeting these needs from trees requires that new chemistry be developed so that plant material is converted to commodity chemicals. This focu...

efficiency of hydroponic green fodder as animal feed

since the last decades, hydroponic fodder production systems have been experienced in some parts of the world. during the germination process, the growth of embryo results in the rupture of the seed coat and emergence of a young plant which it reaches to about 20cm height in a week. apparently, the concept of putting one kilogram of seeds into a hydroponic system to obtaine several kilograms of...