Creampie Internal Affairs

landslides could say something, we Soil? When

April 6, 2009. Hours 3.32 am
An earthquake with a magnitude> 5 earth-shaking Abruzzo releasing its energy in particular near the city of L'Aquila and in the surrounding countryside. The media have rightly emphasized the wave of destruction and despair derived from the victims and ruined towns. The accusations, suspicions the whole of Italy and the certainties about what is possible and necessary to advance to mitigate the effects of a natural phenomenon such as an earthquake occupy the pages of daily newspapers and the media. The categories most frequently cited and displayed in all the senses are those of geologists, engineers, architects and surveyors and of course the seismologists who are a race apart, a cross between the geology and physics. Soil obviously we are not party to the proceedings live. Especially for what concerns the study of earthquakes. Maybe we could be, however, with regard to the following event: what happens after an earthquake in SURFACE? Which dynamics can trigger? The study of soils, defined as soil-pedon and not as is interpreted by the other categories mentioned above, it can still be helpful? There are areas of soil science may be questioned in any way to have a particular vision of the phenomenon? In short, a thorough knowledge of the first meters of material can give some useful information to the management of an area affected by an earthquake.
Have your considerations, by geologists and agronomists to all those who in some way active in the area for soil conservation. Federico Castellani

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1 million hectares is rented for 99 years at no cost

Asian and European countries with the availability of capital but a shortage of arable land in the rent to see large portions of land in Africa a great opportunity to solve their supply problems. The last case of colossal dimensions, concerns South Korea and Madagascar. A subsidiary of the multinational Daewoo has just concluded with the Government of Madagascar an agreement to lease for 99 years, 1.3 million hectares of uncultivated land currently occupied by savannah and grazing herds of local pastors or primary forests. The agreement does not provide for the payment of sums of money to the Government of Madagascar for the rent of land, but it will finance Daewoo culturing.
It is unclear whether the lands of Madagascar will have to provide food for Koreans or corn and palm oil, used to produce biodiesel, the liquid gold of the third millennium.

is the first time that there is an agreement of this magnitude, but Madagascar is not the only African country with a considerable agricultural potential affecting the agricultural and food companies and Western Asia.
is also the case, among others, Angola, where the draft agreement with foreign investors provides for the hiring of 20 000 hectares of land, but it is only the first step of the strategy of investors, to " long-term rent for up to 2 million hectares in Africa. This past spring, was the American multinational Chiquita Brands, the world's largest producer of bananas, to announce plans to establish itself heavily in Africa. For the group is a strategic move in order to circumvent the obstacles posed by the EU banana imports from Latin America.

Private companies not only the sun to try to rent land in Africa to ensure food supplies in the future may be increasingly difficult. Gulf Arab states are planning massive investment in African lands.

Faced with this unbridled hunting to agricultural land in less developed countries of the world, FAO, the Organization of United Nations Food and Agriculture, has recently published a document that warned against the risk of a "neo-colonialism 'agriculture. But the alarm, as well as a seat of authority, has not yet been heard.


Information: taken from article by Jean-Pierre Tuquoi Le Monde - 20/11/2008 taken by The Associated Press - 21/11/2008

Image: taken from http:// www.wildmadagascar.org - aerial view of an area deforested for agricultural purposes