Culturally important plants from Southern Belize: Domestication by Q'eqchi' Maya healers and conservation

Article Abstract:

The experience of managing and maintaining a culturally important medicinal plant garden by a group of traditional Q'eqchi' Maya healers in Southern Belize is reported. Some of the challenges and benefits associated with the establishment of local medicinal plant gardens are explored and a general evaluation of the sustainability of their harvesting practices, resulting in conservation of cultural and biological diversity, is provided.

Other Crop Farming, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION--CROPS, Belize, Medicinal Plants, Environmental aspects

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Nitrogen fertilization, soil nitrate accumulation, and policy recommendations in several agricultural regions of China

Article Abstract:

The impact of fertilization in grain producing regions in China is presented. Creating awareness among policy-makers, administrators and scientists is the main aim focused, so that care is taken to control the accumulation of nitrates in soil profiles.

Methods, Influence, Fertilizer application, Soil conservation

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Impacts on wetlands of large-scale land use changes by agricultural development: the small Sanjiang plain, China

Article Abstract:

An attempt is made to focus on degraded wetlands in the small Sanjiang plain in China, where waterfowls, fish and plants are found in abundance. The loss of these wetlands due to agricultural development has caused a loss of a number of habitats.

Wetlands

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