Lecture Schedule
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Welcome; Overview of
Course (syllabus and goals (evolving), Will focus on US and compare and
contrast w/ other countries.
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format, assignments
(critiques of readings, homeworks, final paper)
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perquisites (none)
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books/readings/website:
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faculty.washington.edu/battisti/food/index.htm
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e-reserves:
eres.lib.washington.edu
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Book: "Feeding
the Ten Billion", by L.T. Evans.
Cambridge Press 1998
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Lecture 1: Statement
of the Problem: Food production for 10 billion people by 2050; envirnmental
impacts; resource constraints.
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Reading: Evans,
chapters 1-5
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Lecture 2: Agriculture
from 1825-1960; the role of technology; what we eat now
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Reading: Evans
Chapter 6-9 (pgs 90-164)
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Lecture 3: The Green
Revolution and modern agriculture; deleterious impacts; who is still hungry?
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Reading assignment
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Evanson, R.E. and D.
Gollin, 2003. Assessing the impact of the Green Revolution: 1960-2000.
Science, 300, 758-62.
Part II:
The US story: today and tomorrow (regional and global influence)
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Lecture 4: Livestock
and the Environment; Who eats meat? (In)efficiency of livestock for food;
Trends in livestock production
Readings for lecture:
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Naylor et
al. Loosing the Links between livestock and land. Science 310, (2005)
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Fearnside:
Soybean cultivation as a threat to the environment in Brazil.
Environ.Conserv.28, p23 (2001)
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Lecture 5: The US
Farm Bill; subsidies;
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Readings for lecture:
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Chapters 1-6 of
PollanÕs book ÒOmnivores DilemmaÓ
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Lecture 6: Impact of
Agriculture on Biogeochemical Cycles and Soils
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Readings for lecture:
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Vitousek, P., H.A.
Mooney, J. Lubchenco, J.M. Melilo, 1997. Human domination of EarthÕs
Ecosystems. Science, 277, 494-8.
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Stocking,
M.A. 2003. Tropical Soils and Food Security: the next 50 years. Science, 302,
1356-8.
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Scherr,
S., 1999. Soil Degradation: a threat to developing-country food security by
2020? Brief #58 to International
Food Policy Institute.
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Lecture 7:
Agriculture and Water
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Readings for lecture:
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Gleick, P., 2003:
ÒGlobal freshwater resources: soft-path solutions for the 21st
CenturyÓ. Science, 302, 1524-28.
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Postel, S. 2000
Redesigning irrigated agriculture. Chapter 3 in ÒState of the World 2000Ó.
Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC.
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Lecture 8: Industrial
Agriculture: a case study
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Readings for lecture:
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Naylor, R.L., W.P.
Falcon, and A. Puente-Gonzales, 2001: Policy reforms and Mexican agriculture:
Views from the Yaqui Valley.
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Lecture 9:
Agriculture and Biofuels
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Readings for lecture:
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Runge,
C.F., and B. Senauer, 2007: How biofuels could starve the poor. Foreign
Affairs.
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Hill, J.,
E. Nelson, D. Tilman, S. Polasky, and D. Tiffany, 2006: Environmental, economic
and energetic cost and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels. PNAS, pg
11206-10.
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Lecture 10:
Genetically Engineered Food; the promise; social and economic impact
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Readings for lecture:
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Chapter
2 of the FAO report "The state of food and agriculture 2003-4". (pages
8-18 only)
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Chapter
3 of the FAO report (pages 31-39 only)
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Lecture 11: Jim
Donald, CEO of Starbucks
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Readings: Shillings
for Starbucks, GreenInvestor.com Fall 2007
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Lecture 12:
Genetically Engineered Food; environmental and health consequences
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Readings for lecture:
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Chapter
5 of the FAO report "The state of food and agriculture 2003-4".
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Allison
Snow's "Transgenic crops - why gene flow matters". Nature, 20, 2002
Part III:
Climate Change and Agriculture; Evaluating alternatives to global agribusiness
(organic, slow food, sustainable harvests, community supported agriculture É)
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Lecture 13: Climate
Change and Agriculture
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Readings for lecture:
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Intergovermental Panel
for Climate Change (IPCC) 2007, Executive Summary, WG1, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge. Pgs 1-18.
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IPCC 2007, Chapter 5,
WG2, Food, Fiber and Forest Products.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Executive Summary, section 5.3.1
through section 5.4.2.3 (pages 275-276, 280-285).
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Guest Lecture: Michael
Battisti, progressive farmer, upstate New York
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Lecture 14: Dairy
Farming in the US; intensive production vs. sustainable production
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Readings for lecture:
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Welsh, R. 1996. The
Battisti family dairy farm: a profile. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
(Jan-Feb): 34-37.
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Murphy, B. 1991.
Preface in Greener Pastures on Your Side of the Fence. Arriba Publishing:
1120.
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Mike Battisti
biography information, Maple-Bush Farm, Eaton NY: 2 pp.
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Lecture 15:
Sustainable Agriculture; Organics and Alternative Food Movements
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Readings for lecture:
Kirchmann,
H. and M.H. Ryan, 2004: Nutrients in Organic Farming – Are there
advantages from the exclusive use of organic manures and untreated minerals?
Proc. Of the fourth international crop science congress, Brisbane AU.
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Lecture 16: Food
Security and Africa: past present and Future
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Readings for lecture:
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Executive summary of
ÒCausing Hunger: an overview of the food crisis in Africa.Ó Oxfam International
Briefing Paper #91. 2006.
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Conway, G., 2003:
From the Green Revolution to the Biotechnology Revolution: Food for poor people
in the 21st Century. Addres to the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholarship.
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Lecture 17: Feeding
10 Billion People
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Readings for lecture: