Biodynamic agriculture

South Africa has always developed in many different ways, the food being varied due to the country's geological location and colorful history. Even before any foreign settlers appeared on the coasts of South Africa, there existed a multitude of ethnic groups such as the Khoisan and Bantu-speaking communities, both of which have many sub groups. The most dominant feature though was the valuing of cattle and oxen and the main ingredients besides meat included grains and various vegetables. After…

Based on the 2014 Meat Atlas of the Friends of the Earth and the Heinrich Boll Foundation, there are a total of 375 million vegetarians worldwide. Starting way back to early history, vegetarian Greek and Roman philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plutarch, Seneca, and Porfirio followed a meatless diet (Figus, 2014). These people believed that slaughtering animals are against the animal’s rights and that a meatless diet is much better for one’s health. A vegetarian diet consists mostly of fruits and…

ABSTRACT: Growing demand for agricultural production intensifies over the years as the population of human race escalates rapidly. Small countries like Singapore lacks areas of lands and hence, resources. With the advancement of science and technology, cloning and genetic engineering techniques have been inculcated into our world today. This paper will discuss about the favorable and unfavorable factors of both cloning and genetic modification in agricultural production and finally, conclude to…

Ever wondered how the banyan tree grew to be so huge?. I recall standing below a huge banyan tree in my village. My father showed me a seed and said the tree is from this seed. As a young boy it was a mystery to me how such a big tree developed from this tiny seed. As I grew up I understood the development stages and how it also related to my development from a just born to the stage I am. There is a very popular song in my native language Tamil in India. The song says we have…

The socioeconomic characteristics of the population were evaluated to provide an understanding of the local social and economic context in which the fruit consumption took place. Likert scales were constructed to appraise the impression of respondents of harvested fruit on farm and purchased fruit as well as farmers’ impression about wild fruit, fruit consumption by certain categories of persons and fruit consumption by children. All variables were first synthesised using descriptive statistics.…

2.1. Origin and Distribution of Cassava Cassava has its genetic, geographical and agricultural origin in Latin America. Its domestication began 5000 – 7000 years BC in the Amazon, Brazil (Alves, 2002) and it was distributed by Europeans to the rest of the world (Henry and Hershey, 2002). Cassava was taken from Brazil to the West coast of Africa by Portuguese traders in the 16th century (Jones, 1959; Nweke, 1994). Cassava is highly tolerant to drought. It is well adapted to areas with a long…

Throughout millions of years species have learned to adapt to the ever-changing planet they call home. Some species have survived the change and others have not and went extinct. The National Geographic documentary on the Wild Amazon Rainforest offers some insight on how the creatures of the forest and the river have adapted throughout time. Every year new species is being discovered, whether it be plants or animals. If the environment is changing slowly the animals and plants that live in the…

Pineapples are standard regular items that are produced in various tropical and subtropical regions all through the world. Despite this, there are a lot of captivating substances about pineapples that numerous people may not know. This is only several them. Reason for pineapples Botanists have taken after the reason for pineapples to South America. Specifically, pineapples started from Brazil, in the Amazon Bowl. The Aztecs were creating and eating pineapples a long time before North,…

owner. Spring grains cultivat-ed in enclosed villages yielded about one-third more than open villages, by im-proving drainage systems in heavy arable districts . During 18th century, a series of Parliamentary legislation were introduced. English agriculture became domi-nated by consolidated landholdings and peasant cultivation was replaced by cap-italist farming. With Parliamentary enclosures, many small landholders had to sell their land to larger ones and this resulted in large consolidated…

In a world filled with nearly 8 billion people, there is the fear that lingers in many people’s minds about if the earth can support the ever-growing population. For people to understand the impacts that are had because of trying to create sufficient food, drinkable water, and shelter, they need to understand how having so many people on this planet is causing this to be a distant dream. This isn’t just a problem that those within the discipline of biology face, but something that every human…