Agroecology Program at FIU

Agroecology Student Workshop

2007-2008
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Florida International University
Graham Center, Room 243
Registration at 9:00 am

9:30-11:00 "Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture: Challenges and                   Opportunities”
                  Panel:
                  • Dr. Steve Gliessman, Alfred Heller Professor of Agroecology
                     University of California, Santa Cruz
                  • Dr. Eva Worden, Worden Farms, Certified Organic Produce
                     Punta Cana, Florida
                  • And More

11:00-12:15 Poster presentations: "Agroecology and Natural Resources
                  Management: Case Studies from the US and Around the World"
                  -Topics for Poster Presentations: Urban gardens, local
                   agriculture, organic food pricing, best management practices,
                   pesticide bio-remediation, water harvesting technology,
                   international food problems & solutions, etc.

12:15-1:00 Lunch (will be provided)

1:00-4:30 Student and faculty oral presentations.

2006-2007

Pictures from the 2006 workshop

LOCATION: ECS 157 (Agroecology lab)
DATE: Monday, October 23rd 2006
TIME: 1pm to 4pm

1:00 to 2:30 Session 1
Giddy Bobeche: Socio-economic and ecological dimensions of organic agriculture in South Florida.

Melissa Abdo: Linking livelihoods to the landscape: integrating local ecological knowledge to improve sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Indonesia

Jose Pacheco: Biological control of Brazilian pepper.

Cristina Clark-Cuadrado: Summer internship with the USDA-NRCS.

Katherine Valverde: Summer internship in organic farming.

3:00 to 4:00 Session 2
Cassandra Quave: Integration and management of plants as functional foods and medicines in home gardens and vineyards of Southern Italy.

Kathy Stone: Policies to mitigate ecological effects of shrimp farming: A comparative study of Florida and Karnataka, India.

Christina Hoffman: geo-spatial analysis of water-demand-use with in the Mara River Basin (MRB) in Eastern Africa.

Nasser Brahim: Trees and tea in the East African Highlands.

Seema Sah: Effect of flooding on arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization in bean plans.