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[CSS/INTAG 314]
Tropical Cropping Systems: biodiversity, social and environmental impacts.
3 Credit Hours [Letter Grades]
SCHEDULE [Tuesdays & Thursdays. 08:40-09:55, 105 BRADFIELD HALL]
 Date  Instructor   Topic
 8-28  Fernandes  Introduction to Tropical Cropping Systems - An overview of the material to be covered  in  the course
 9-2  Fernandes  Video "You can't eat potential" featuring Norman Borlaug - 1970 Nobel Prize winner for contributions  to  improving world cereal yields. NB. Dr Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize  because there  isn't a  a Nobel prize for Agriculture)
 9-4  Fernandes  Group discussions and class presentations on "You can't eat potential."
 9-11  Fernandes  Tropical Crop Species & Varieties: Diversity and Domestication
 9-12  Lehmann, Johannes  Soils of the Tropics: Management for Sustainable Cropping
 9-16  Fernandes, Erick  Traditional Slash & Burn Agriculture: Yields and Nutrient Dynamics
 9-19  Fernandes  Smallholder mixed farming systems
 9-23  Medvecky, Beth  Maize-legume cropping system - Case study from Kenya
 9-26  Robert Blake  Livestock in mixed farming systems
 PRELIM EXAM 1  [TAKE HOME]
 9-30  Styger, Erika  Agroforesty video: Conservation farming and Landcare [Courtesy of ICRAF] & Group Discussions
 10-2  Styger, Erika  Managed Fallows: Case study from Madagascar
 10-7  McCaffery, Karen  Agroforestry Systems and Practices in the Tropics
 10-9  McCaffery, Karen  Agroforestry Systems research - Carbon and Nutrients case study from Brazil
   TITLE & OUTLINE OF TERM PAPER DUE VIA DIGITAL DROP BOX IN STUDENT TOOLS BY 5:00 PM, OCTOBER 11, 2002
 10-14   FALL BREAK - NO CLASS
 10-16  Styger, Erika  Agroforestry Video: "Live Fences - Knowledge Exchange" & Group Discussions
 PRELIM EXAM 2 [CBSAF IV Oct 21-26]
 10-21  Merwin, Ian A.  Plantation-based beverage crop systems
 10-23  Merwin, Ian A.  Plantation-based fruit crop systems
 10-28  Merwin, Ian A.  Plantation-based oil crop systems
 10-30  Wien, H.Christian  Intensive vegetable crop systems
 11-4  Hobbs, Peter  Upland cereal-based systems
 11-6  Hobbs, Peter  Upland and lowland rice cropping systems
  TAKE HOME PRELIM EXAM 3  [ASA meetings Nov 10-14]
 11-11  Hobbs, Peter  Discussion on environmental issues of cropping systems and "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
 11-13  Peter Trutman  Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in tropical cropping systems
 11-18  Thies, Janice  Soil biology and crop, tree, pasture productivity
 11-20  David Lee  The intersection of trade and development
 11-25  Kresovich, Stephen  Biotechnology, New Crops and More Food for People in the Tropics?
TERM PROJECT PAPER DUE [5:00 pm; December 5, 2002]
 11-27  THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS
 12-2  Student Discussion & Group Project Design [Session I]
 12-4  Student Discussion & Group Project Design [Session II]

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