What Causes Famine?

What Causes Famine? It doesn’t take a Mao or a Stalin.

Good article on the possibility of climate change-induced famine:  Click Here  We in Puerto Rico should be very concerned about famine in other parts of the world, since 80% of our food is imported.

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Years of Living Dangerously Premiere Full Episode

This is the first episode of a series on climate change produced by ShowTime. Excellent!

P.S. PR friends: The evangelical climate scientist, Katherine Hayhoe, interviewed in this episode, provided the global climate data used in a recently published study on seasonal impacts of climate change on ag water resources in Puerto Rico. Click here to download

Coloquio Agroambiental – Ciclo de Conferencias Feb – Mayo 2014

 
Click Here to view the video series.
 

Coloquio Poster 2014

Reframing the Climate Debate

One Guy With A Marker Just Made The Global Warming Debate Completely Obsolete

Courses offered this semester at UPRM: Farm Irrigation and Agroclimatology (TMAG)

I will be offering the following two courses this semester at UPR-Mayaguez. Please click the following links for the course fliers.

TMAG 5017 Agroclimatology

TMAG 4019 Farm Drainage and Irrigation Systems

Please feel free to contact me if you would like additional information about either course.

Eric Harmsen, Professor
University of Puerto Rico
Dept. of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
email: harmsen1000@hotmail.com, eric.harmsen@upr.edu
phone: 787-955-5102
websites: http://pragwater.com , http://bahai.org

irrigation

NASA Beautifully Observes Photosynthesis From Space (VIDEO)

NASA Beautifully Observes Photosynthesis From Space (VIDEO)

click here

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The North Pole Has Melted. Again.

“It’s a shallow lake. It’s a cold lake. But it is, actually, a lake,…”

click here to read article

north pole has melted again

Course offerings this semester at UPRM: Farm Irrigation and Agroclimatology (TMAG)

I will be offering the following two courses this semester at UPR-Mayaguez. Please click the following links for the course fliers.

TMAG 5017 Agroclimatology

TMAG 4019 Farm Drainage and Irrigation Systems

Please feel free to contact me if you would like additional information about either course.

Eric Harmsen, Professor
University of Puerto Rico
Dept. of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
email: harmsen1000@hotmail.com, eric.harmsen@upr.edu
phone: 787-955-5102
websites: http://pragwater.com , http://bahai.org

irrigation

New Chilean agriculture-climate observation centre to boost early warning for drought events

New Chilean agriculture-climate observation centre to boost early warning for drought events

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