Environmental services and poverty reduction: Options for smallholders in the Sahel

Environmental service provision is increasingly discussed as a potential new venue for the simultaneous pursuit of development and natural resource conservation objectives, particularly among landowners in the low-income tropics. To date, most of the experience with such market-regulated mechanisms comes from water and forest projects in Latin America. Preliminary evidence suggests that participation of, and benefits to, small-scale land users are highly unequal and that the synergistic goals of poverty reduction and resource conservation through these emerging market mechanisms might be overly ambitious. This paper assesses the possibility of pro-poor environmental service provision through carbon sequestration among smallholders in the Sahel. It focuses on a case study in the small-scale, rain-fed agricultural systems of the Old Peanut Basin of Senegal. Based on a conceptual framework including economic, institutional, policy and livelihood factors, it assesses to the extent to which specific groups of farmers are able or willing to participate in and benefit from potential carbon offset programs. Finally, the paper stresses the need for adequate and equitable financial support and a careful rethinking of the institutional structures necessary to enhance rural livelihoods and natural resource management in drylands, with or without market-based environmental service programs.     

Agricultural practice changes with cultivating genetically modified herbicide-tolerant oilseed rape

To facilitate weed suppression, oilseed rape or canola (Brassica napus) has been genetically modified (GM) over the last two decades to incorporate herbicide tolerance (HT). The introduction of oilseed rape in commercial agriculture raises concerns about potential adverse agronomic and environmental effects linked to both the genetic modification and altered agricultural practice. How will this new crop modify the existing cropping practice? What are the potential agro-environmental implications of its introduction? This paper analyses and schematises recorded and conceivable agricultural practice changes with GMHT oilseed rape introduction and its likely agro-environmental effects. It develops a conceptual systematics of influencing factors, subsequent practice changes and likely agro-environmental effects. The results can be used to design the mandatory monitoring of adverse GM crop effects.     

节水灌溉综合效应评价研究进展

综述了20世纪80年代以来节水灌溉综合效应评价领域的研究进展。分析了目前存在的主要问题:缺乏较为完善的基础数据平台、评价方法亟待实用化、亟需建立符合不同层次评价需求的指标体系、规划缺乏科学性,与生产实践脱节等。提出应加强节水灌溉基础理论与节水潜力分析、完善现有节水灌溉技术标准、重视节水灌溉项目综合效应评价方法及评价体系研究和已建节水示范区综合效应的评价等。     

南瓜叶防治菜粉蝶幼虫的药效评价及成本分析

通过实验室研究和大田试验对收集自我国民间的土农药——南瓜叶榨取液防治芥蓝菜粉蝶幼虫的药效进行验证和经济方面的分析评价。实验室研究结果表明：南瓜叶榨取液防治菜粉蝶主要作用机制是抑制其取食，在12h和24h的取食抑制中浓度FRC50（Feeding Restrain Content）分别为511．3214和484．3441mg·L^-1；12h和24h菜粉蝶幼虫对浸渍过榨取液芥蓝叶片的非选择性拒食率和选择性拒食率分别为66．00％、57．75％和56．04％、56．52％。大田试验结果表明：在第2、5、7d，榨取液对于芥蓝的保叶效果分别达到了48．17％、65．82％和70.46％；对虫害的防治效果分别达到了97．58％、86．98％和90．72％。经济分析结果显示：用土农药防治菜粉蝶，亩产芥蓝利润值最高，比不进行防治生产方式增加116．35元。     

2株重组根瘤菌在4个大豆品种根圈中定殖动态的比较研究

在灭菌和未灭菌土盆栽缩影条件下，比较研究了重组大豆根瘤菌HN01DL和TA113QD在4个不同品种大豆根圈中的定殖动态与水平，并初步考察了其与共生效应的关系。结果表明：HN01DL在渝豆1号和宁镇1号大豆根圈表现出较强的适应性和竞争性，而TA113QD则在Williams大豆根圈的适应性较强，在宁镇1号大豆根圈的适应性较差，且供试菌在4种大豆根圈定殖动态与水平的差异在共生效应上也有一定程度的反映，但未达到显著水平。     

秸秆沼气化发电技术生命周期评估及经济分析

该研究基于生命周期评价方法和时间价值动态分析方法对沼气直燃发电技术、沼气燃料电池发电技术作可行性分析,并与燃煤发电技术相比,旨在综合评估三种发电技术在环境和经济上的特点,为发电方式选择提供参考依据。结果表明：沼气燃料电池发电技术环境效益最佳,总环境影响负荷为8.55×10^-4,沼气直燃发电技术总环境影响负荷为2.15×10^-2,两者相较于燃煤发电(2.97×10^-1)的减排量分别为99.71%和92.76%。在经济上,沼气直燃发电技术的投资回收期最短(12.03 a),运营期净现值可达1 361 246 Yuan/MW;其次是燃煤发电技术(14.5 a),净现值为423 933 Yuan/MW;沼气燃料电池发电技术动态回收期>20 a且未实现盈余。说明沼气直燃发电技术在近期内将仍是替代燃煤发电的最佳发电技术之一。     

多元酸性土壤调理剂在辣椒上的施用效果研究

辣椒施用由碱渣与城市污泥配制而成的多元酸性土壤调理剂的盆栽试验结果表明:辣椒施用多元酸性土壤调理剂后,消除了土壤酸性的主要障碍,植株根系活力增强,椒果产量和品质显著提高,与不施土壤调理剂处理相比,土壤的pH值提高0.69、盐基饱和度(CEC)提高33.18%、有效Al降低40.39%,辣椒的株高增加32.38%、产量增加133.63%、果实维生素C含量增加264.35%、根系活力增加69.63%,植株的Ca和Mg累积量分别提高183.50%和123.61%.研究结果还表明,多元酸性土壤调理剂的肥效等同或优于"田师傅"土壤调理剂.     

环境伦理学对中国风景园林发展的启示

论述了环境伦理学指导我国园林发展的必要性,以及环境伦理学对我国园林发展的启示,从而对环境伦理学在园林事业发展中的应用进行探讨,提出在城市发展决策和风景园林规划设计,以及在相关法律、法规和行政机构、社会结构中确立环境伦理学价值观的重要意义。     

谈实现城市景观设计完整性的三步骤

结合实例阐述城市景观设计完整性的三大步骤,即环境分析、造景目的和实现技法,并指出景观设计完整性对景观建设的积极意义。     

黄河小浪底库区不同人工林水土保持效益研究

采用空间代替时间的方法,通过对黄河小浪底库区不同人工林水土保持效益浅要分析,结果表明:最大吸水率为刺槐>侧柏>20多年生栓皮栎>40多年生栓皮栎,凋落物储量和最大持水量均为20多年生栓皮栎>40多年生栓皮栎>侧柏>刺槐;土壤渗透性能和贮水性能变化较为复杂,侧柏林地的渗透性和贮水性能较其它林地好些,刺槐林地上下层之间变化最大。