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Guest Blog: Farming with the Titimangsa: Losing Weather (and Water) in Time
24/12/09 02:02
By
Nikolai Sindorf,
WWF-US, based in Laos
In 1997 I went to the western part of Java in Indonesia to research on agricultural water management. Java is one of the most densely populated regions and high-yielding rice paddy lands in the world.
The focus of my research was
how rice farmers dealt technologically and
organizationally with ongoing reforms in
large, engineered irrigation systems. During
this research I met a farmer who had
meticulously typed out his traditional
cropping calendar. This cropping calendar —
a titimangsa
— read like a
beautiful poem, describing the smell of the
dew, the color of the sunset, the touch of the
soil, and the observation of insect life
cycles.
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In 1997 I went to the western part of Java in Indonesia to research on agricultural water management. Java is one of the most densely populated regions and high-yielding rice paddy lands in the world.
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Video: UK Rivers on the Edge
01/11/09 18:06
When we think about
great freshwater ecosystems globally, most people
don't think about the United Kingdom. The Yangtze
of China is probably closer to most visions of a
great river, or perhaps from a wild perspective
Lake Baikal of Russia or the Colorado river as it
passes through the Grand Canyon. But there is also
great beauty and wonder in small places — streams
and ponds — that may lack grandeur but are no less
moving or important. The chalk
streams of southern England and
northern France are precisely such places.
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