Tentative
Class Schedule Spring 2011
Introduction
to Tropics -
Beginner's Guide - CGIAR
Web Sites (Jan. 18)
Climatic Factors - Climate Classificationtemperature, rainfall, humidity, light, drought, famine (Jan. 20)
Plant responses to water stress and drought, flooding, heat, and humidity (Jan. 25)
Perspectives on - (agriculture & food security; food & population growth) (Jan. 27)
Land of Plenty, Land of Want (Journey to Planet Earth) (Feb. 1)
Population, socio-economics, global issues - FAO 2004 Food InSecurity (Feb. 3)
Tropical Soils (tropical soils, acid soils, green manures) (Feb. 8)
Green Revolution: A failure or a success? - FAO perspective and Critical Issues in Global Agriculture (Feb. 10)
World Food Crops
- Plants for Tropical Subsistence Farms (Feb. 15)
Principles of Crop Selection Tropical Crop Link (Feb. 17)
No Class, Monday Schedule (Feb. 22)
Major food crops - Cereals (rice) (Feb. 24)
FIRST-TERM
EXAM (Holdsworth Hall Rm 302) (Mar. 1)
Major food crops - Cereals (maize, sorghum) (Mar. 3)
International research organizations: Class Presentation (Mar. 8)
Major food crops - Cereals (pearl and finger millet) and pseudo-cereals (Mar. 10)
Spring Break
Field Trip - Tropical Crops Durphy Conservatory (Mar. 22)
Major food crops
- roots & tubers (cassava, sweet
potato, taro, yam, potato) (Mar. 25)
Major food crops - legumes (bean, chickpea, cowpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, soybean) and oil seeds (Mar. 29)
Major food crops - (vegetables, moringa tree, chaya) (Mar. 31)
Major food crops - tropical fruits (banana, coconut, and breadfruit) (Apr. 5)
Other crops - forages (forages-ECHO, tropical forages) (Apr. 7)
SECOND-TERM EXAM (Holdsworth Hall Rm 302) (Apr. 12)
Cropping Systems - Shifting Agriculture, multiple cropping and polyculture (Apr. 14)
Cropping
Systems - Alley cropping, Agroforestry Princ., Forestry Agroforestry (Apr. 19)
Dryland/Rainfed
agriculture - Food production: the
critical role of water (Apr. 21)
Strategies
and technologies for dryland crop production - Dryland
Farming (Apr. 26)
Animal agriculture (Apr. 28)
Global Banquet, by Invitation Only (May 3)
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Evaluation:
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Class
participation
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0 to -5%
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| Short
papers and class presentations |
20% |
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Term Paper
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20%
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| Term
exams (2) |
40%
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Final
exam
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20%
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Textbook (Recommended, not required): Tropical and Sub-Tropical Foods, by Susan Mayhew and Anne Penny, Macmillan Education Ltd.