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Walter Parham 138 days ago
Linking China’s degraded lands, its stimulus package and unemployed college graduates Walter Parham, Ph.D. Federation of American Scientists May 2009 China’s population now is about 1.33 billion and increasing 8 million each year (http://www.census.gov). At the same time the amount of China’s arable agricultural land continually decreases from uncontrolled development, and land degradation. Land degradation has reached 78 percent [...]
Walter Parham 490 days ago
A small-farm system for South China to offset drought, increase water resources, improve degraded lands, and expand income opportunities by Walter E. Parham, Ph.D. July 2008 Introduction: Some seventy years ago in South Africa, C.M. Heanley, a field researcher and keen observer of nature, noted that the water flow from springs located at [...]
