The History of Temperate Agroforestry

Land use systems integrating trees and agriculture have been practised for thousands of years, and have traditionally been important elements of the agricultural landscape in tropical and temperate regions around the world. This report reviews explores a range of traditional temperate agroforestry practices and goes on to describe their decline and the development of modern systems

Agroforestry: Reconciling Production with Protection of the Environment A Synopsis of Research Literature

This is a synopsis of research literature that investigates the potential of temperate agroforestry as a sustainable production system. Agroforestry is a concept of integrated land use that combines elements of agriculture and forestry. An emphasis on managing rather than reducing complexity promotes a functionally biodiverse system that balances productivity with environmental protection

Agroforestry: Reconciling Production with Protection of the Environment

Leaflet summarising agro-forestry, and outlining the work needed to move agroforestry into the mainstream

From Little Acorns

Inaugurating Writing Nature: A Seasonal Program of Readings of Nature Writings, under the shared auspices of the Teatown Lake Reservation and the Hudson Valley Writers Center. Presented at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York

The Translation of Spanish Agri-food Texts into English and Italian Using Machine Translation Engines: A Contrastive Study

La industria agroalimentaria es uno de los sectores económicos más importantes en España. El trabajo de los traductores en este sector permite la creación de nuevos negocios en otros países y, por lo tanto, contribuye al crecimiento económico. Entre los más importantes, el sector cárnico es líder en facturación y empleo directo. Por otra parte, la mayoría son pequeñas y medianas empresas y tienen la necesidad de adaptar información sobre sus productos para atraer a nuevos consumidores. Sin embargo, hay algunos ámbitos en los que aún no se ha investigado con profundidad, como los embutidos. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar el resultado de la traducción automática de un texto agroalimentario, del español al inglés y al italiano y utilizando diferentes motores de traducción automática, con la finalidad de identificar los errores principales, valorar qué motor de TA produce mejores resultados y enfatizar la importancia de formar a los traductores en este ámbito.Grado en Traducción e Interpretació

Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication

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Address at the Lincoln Charter of the Forest Conference, Bishop Grosseteste University: The Charter of the Forest: Evolving Human Rights in Nature

This conference is a singular event, long over due. It has been 258 years since William Blackstone celebrated “these two sacred charters,”1 Carta de Foresta and Magna Carta, with his celebrated publication of their authentic texts. In 2015, the Great Charter of Liberties enjoyed scholarly, political and popular focus. The companion Forest Charter was and is too much neglected.2 I salute the American Bar Association, and Dan Magraw, for the ABA’s educational focus of the Forest Charter, as well as Magna Carta. Today we restore some balance with this conference’s searching and insightful examination of the Forest Charter’s significance

A simulation model of temperature transitory on rocks having different thermal inertia. Analysis of the theoretical capacity of rock discrimination by remote sensing data

The possibility of identifying ground surface material by measuring the surface temperature at two different and significant times of the day was investigated for the case of hypothetical island whose rocky surface contained no vegetation and consisted of dolomite, clay, and granite. The thermal dynamics of the soil surface during a day in which atmospheric conditions were average for a latitude of about 40 deg to 50 deg were numerically simulated. The line of separation between zones of different materials was delineated by the range of temperature variation. Results show that the difference between maximum and minimum value of the temperature of ground surface during the day is linked to the thermal inertia value of the material of which the rock is formed

Waleran II, Count of Meulan and Worcester, 1104-1166

Waleran was born in 1104 as the elder of the twin sons of Count Robert I of Meulan and Leicester (died 1118) and his wife Isabel of Vermandois (died c. 1139). On his father’s death Waleran and his younger twin, Robert, were each alloted a share of their paternal inheritance by his testament, a division which came into effect on their sixteenth birthday in 1120. Waleran took the county of Meulan in the Vexin Français and the Norman lands (with some Dorset estates to give him an English base and revenue). Waleran was given the marriage of the infant Matilda, daughter of King Stephen of England in 1136, though she died within a couple of years of their betrothal. He married at the end of 1141 Agnes, daughter of Amaury I de Montfort, count of Evreux, and around 1145 secured the lordship of Gournay-sur-Marne in the Parisis as her marriage-portion. In 1138 Waleran was made earl of Worcester in England by King Stephen, a grant which was eventually rescinded by King Henry II. Waleran died on 9/10 April 1166 and was buried in the chapter house of the family abbey of St Peter of Préaux in Normandy. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Count Robert II of Meulan