aea365 Tagxedo Good Morning! here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based on frequency. Here’s an example that I made today using the AEA square logo and the text from the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators . AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators as a Word Cloud I’ve turned to wordle time and again to make a word cloud, but I recently was introduced to Tagxedo and it solves a lot of the shortcomings in wordle and extends the functionality. You can upload your own image and wrap text around the image (or the inverse of the image). You can save to multiple formats including high-resolution formats appropriate for printing as well as the standard lower resolution options good for the web. From here, you’ll just need to go play – the customizability is extensive.
What a global food crisis looks like: Oxfam's food prices map Food prices have hovered near an all-time peak since late 2010 sending tens of millions of people into poverty. Oxfam's interactive map shows how poor communities across the world are being hurt by high and volatile food prices. This ‘food price pressure points map’ provides a global snapshot of the impacts of the global food price crisis. Use this code to embed the map on your website: What causes food price spikes? Failed crops – often caused by our changing climate – hit food prices hard. Short-sighted biofuels strategies play a part too – taking food off of people's plates and putting it into car tanks. But despite all these complex causes, the effects on poor people are painfully simple. Whole communities face an uncertain future, because all anyone can think about is where their next meal will come from. It's time to grow out of food price spikes. The way to GROW But what's also needed is more effective global handling of food price crises when they do happen. Related links
Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects Beer Beer: Making Bread And Mushrooms A traditional brewery of today (see model of traditional brewery below), that brews beer according to the German purity standards, produces beer, but also produces organic waste streams and lost energy. This waste from the brewery is organic material which means that its polluting effect could be seen as minimal. However, given the quantity of water needed for the large volumes of beer produced by today's breweries (up to more than 20 liters of water per liter of brewed beer), this organic waste is a problem. It is also a waste considering the amount of nutrients and protein used from the grains in the beer-brewing process. A small percentage of the nutrients are used, and the protein is left untouched in the spent grains after the process. Traditional Brewery Process Flow Diagram What is Zero Emissions about? Michael McBride, Stormbrewing, Newfoundland. Article published in Canada, August 18, 1999 ZERI Brewery Process Flow Diagram What happened here?
Pearltrees Extension International Peasant Conference : Stop the land grab Details Published on Friday, 02 December 2011 14:17 From the Nyéléni Village - Selingué – Mali – 17 November 2011 Interview with Ndiakhate Fall, from the region of Thies, Ville de Mecklie, member of the CMCR (Conseil National de Concertation et de Cooperation des Ruraux) that is the platform of peasants’ organisations in Senegal, member of Via Campesina. I am a farmer. First of all the extension of cities. Another example is from the valley of Fanaye, where an Italian company has received 150.000 hectares of land from the government. At present, thanks to the information campaigns developed by peasants organizations and other civil society organisations many farmers are refusing to be pushed off their land. Civil society and peasants’ organisations struggle together In Fanaye, an Italian company (SENETHANOL) asked for land to build a factory for the production and processing of agrofuels. Management of land in Senegal The importance of this first peasants forum against land-grabbing
Nourrir l’humanité, refaire le monde ! - Agrobioscience Nourrir l'humanité : refaire le mondeVendredi 19 mars 2010Librairie Etudes/ La FabriqueUniversité Toulouse-Le Mirail ProgrammeRadiographie des malnutritions (15mn)Bernard Maire, nutritionniste, directeur de recherche, responsable de l'équipe Nutrition Publique, UMR Nutripass (IRD) Les visages de la pauvreté (15mn)Henri Rouillé d'Orfeuil, économiste Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), ancien président de Coordination Sud Trois pistes (Animation J. La régulation : marchés en main ? Cultures alimentaires : le pouvoir des savoirs (20mn)Jean-Pierre Poulain, sociologue de l'alimentation, directeur du Centre d'études du tourisme, de l'hôtellerie et des industries de l'alimentation (CETIA – Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail). Les politiques de sécurité alimentaire sous influences (20mn) (animation L. Nourrir l'humanité : l'Europe moteur de la coopération ? Cinq chantiers pour la Méditerranée (20 mn) Animation V.