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THE ARTIFICIAL NITROGEN OF AGRICULTURE: TOP ECOTOXICOLOGICAL THREAT FOR THE HUMANITY Mariano Montaño Armijos, Ph. D. [email protected]
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THE ARTIFICIAL NITROGEN OF AGRICULTURE: TOP ECOTOXICOLOGICAL THREAT FOR THE HUMANITY
Mariano Montaño Armijos, Ph. [email protected]
Guayas Ecosystem: Applying urea to paddy
Atoms of the same element are identical in all respects, having the same size, shape and structure, and especially mass.
Different Nitrogens: Natural and Artificial
Elemental composition of the human body
oxygen
others
carbon
hydrogen
nitrogen
Nitrogen, agriculture and health
Salud
Biological fixation
Chemicalfixation
Agriculture
Food
Health
An error in the conformation of the protein may lead to disease. What are the genetic and molecular causes of misfolded proteins?
William ThomassonAlzheimer´s disease. Cystic fibrosis. Mad Cow disease. An inherited form of emphysema. Even many cancers. Recent discoveries show that all these apparently unrelated diseases result from protein folding gone wrong.
Watanabe, S., Kaneko, K. & Yamanaka, K. (2013)Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the aggregation of misfolded proteins, which accumulate to form insoluble clumps within or around nerve cells.
Nitrogen, cyanobacteria, Azolla, paddy ... TRIBIOSYS
Azolla-Anabaena-paddy
The rice fields are intended to be:
•Biofertilizer factories for agriculture.•Nutritional protein source.•Soil improvement factor.•Lever regeneration of natural microbiota.•Water purification system.•Agent climate change mitigation.•Source of health.•Foundation of economic prosperity.
Ecuador:PaddyEcosystem
Azolla. Biofertilizer of paddies
Azolla. Biofertilizer of banana
Water purification system
Ecuador: Cleaning the rivers Daule, Babahoyo and Guayas, and the Gulf of Guayaquil
Fern-cyanobacteria
Nitrogen
Ecuador's agricultural system. New paradigms
Paddy
N
Clean water
Environmental improvement
Economic sustainable food sovereignty
Fertilizer
Feed
Health E
Annual Values Ecuador World
Rice (Mt) 1.6 750
Area (Mha) 0.4 180
Consumption-Production N (Mt) 0.387 100
Tribiótica Offer N (Mt) 0.487 219
Nitrogen: Global Issues
N
The case of Ecuador.A chemical element, nitrogen, can become the largest economic hub of Ecuador. The nitrogen is part of the 3% of agriculture, livestock, flora, fauna and people of the country, linking these areas to the natural resources, environment and health. Ecuador can become the global benchmark for nitrogen, as Chile's copper and gold South Africa.
Bhutan set to plough lone furrow as world's first wholly organic country.By shunning all but organic farming techniques, the Himalayan state will cement its status as a paradigm of sustainability.http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/feb/11/bhutan-first-wholly-organic-country
Proyectos Azolla (PROMSA, SENACYT, Banco Mundial).Proyecto de Manejo de Recursos Costeros. Dirección del Grupo de Trabajo de Calidad de Agua.Assessment of Nitrogen Cycling in Brackish Marsh of the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana.Inventarios nacionales de plaguicidas COPs, Dioxinas y Furanos y emisiones de Mercurio (Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador-GEF).Proyecto Control de Inundaciones Cuenca Baja del Río Guayas (CEDEGE).Docencia: ESPOL, Universidad de Guayaquil, Universidad Católica de Guayaquil, Escuela Politécnica Nacional.
Scientific and Technologic Basis
Mariano Montaño Armijos Ph. D., MAE, Ing. Quí[email protected]
