Friday, November 9, 2007

Foodsheds and more concepts

New terms I learn today:

1. foodshed
Jack Kloppenburg Jr., John Hendrickson and G. W. Stevenson (1996) "Coming in to the Foodshed"
Getz (1991) "Urban Foodsheds", Permaculture Activist
W.P. Hedden, (1929) How Great Cities are Fed
Foodprint

2. Water Footprint

3. Virtual Water

Books I want to Read:
Omnivore Dilemma
How much should a person consume? : environmentalism in India and the United States

Interesting Journals
Agriculture and Human Value
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Agriculture and environment
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
American Journal of Agriculture Economics
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
Experimental Agriculture
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Precision agriculture

Interesting articles
An alternative way to evaluate the environmental effects of integrated pest management: Pesticide risk indicators
Thomas J. Greitens and Esther Day
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Volume 22, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 213-222

Balancing food, environmental and resource needs
John W. Doran, Fred Kirschenmann and Frederick Magdoff
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Volume 22, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 77-79

Can organic agriculture feed the world?
Catherine Badgley and Ivette Perfecto
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Volume 22, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 80-86

Ecological agriculture: Principles, practices, and constraints
Fred Magdoff
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Volume 22, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 109-117

Testing a complete-diet model for estimating the land resource requirements of food consumption and agricultural carrying capacity: The New York State example
Christian J. Peters, Jennifer L. Wilkins and Gary W. Fick
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Volume 22, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 145-153

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