Week 1 (9/2): Course Overview & Introduction to Urban Agriculture

 

• John Bellamy Foster & Fred Magdoff. 2000. Liebig, Marx, and the Depletion of Soil Fertility: Relevance for Today's Agriculture. In F.Magdoff, J.B.Foster and F.H.Buttel (eds) Hungry for Profit:The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 43-60. 

• John Bellamy Foster. 1999. Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology. American Journal of Sociology 105(2):366-405. Read pages 378-383 "Marx and the Metabolic Rift"

   

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Week 2 (9/9): Bridging the Metabolic Rift: UA & Food Justice Here at Home       

 

• Mark Winnie. 2000. Community Food Security: Promoting Food Security and Building Healthy Food Systems. Community Food Security Coalition.

• Jack Kloppenberg Jr., John Henrickson & G.W. Stevenson. 1996. Coming into the Foodshed. Agriculture and Human Values 13(3):33-42.

 

Guest Speaker: Navina Khanna, HOPE Collaborative

 

Videos:

South Central Farms

Food Justice: A Growing Movement

 

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SATURDAY FIELD TRIP (9/13): City Slicker Farms (map) Meet there at 11 AM

 

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Week 3 (9/16): Urbanization, the Global Food Crisis, and UA in the Developing World

 

• Mike Davis. 2004. Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat. New Left Review 26(2):5-34. Read through page 27

• Rene van Veenhuizen. 2006. Introduction. Cities Farming for the Future: Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities.  Waginengen: RUAF.

 

Guest Speaker: Alethea Harper

 

Video: RUAF, Urban Agriculture

 

Resources/Additional Reading:

World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

Reality of Aid Network (see RoA reports)

David Harvey. 2006. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mike Davis. 2006. Planet of Slums. London: Verso.

UN HABITAT: The Challenge of Slums - Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

BBC Urban Planet (includes interactive urban population map)

 

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Week 4 (9/23): Metabolism Underground: Physical, Chemical & Biological Properties of Soil

 

• Thies, Janice E. & Julie M. Grossman. 2006. The Soil Habitat & Soil Ecology. In Uphoff et al (eds) Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 59-78.

 

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Week 5 (9/30): Sustainable Soil Fertility

 

• Seiter, Stefan & William R. Horwath. 2004. Strategies for Managing Soil Organic Matter to Supply Plant Nutrients. In Magdoff & Weil (eds) Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 269-293.

 

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Week 6 (10/7): Agroecological Principles for Plant Health & Pest Management

 

• C.I. Nicholls & M.A. Altieri. 2007. Agroecology: Contributions towards a renewed ecological foundation for pest management. In M. Kogan & P. Jepson (eds) Perspectives in Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management. Cambridge University Press, pp. 431-468.

 

Resources:

 

• ATTRA Soil Systems Guide.ATTRA, Plant Disease slides

  UC Division of Ag & Natural Resources. 2000. Weed Management for Organic Crops. UCANR Publication 7250.

• Preston Sullivan. 2004.  Sustainable Management of Soil-borne Plant Diseases

   

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Week 7 (10/14): Irrigation & Midterm Review

 

**MIDTERM DISTRIBUTED via b-space**

 

• ESPM 117 Fall 08 Midterm Review.pdf

 

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Week 8 (10/21): Urban Livestock & Urban Pollinators

 

**MIDTERM DUE via b-space**

 

• Class Handouts (TBD)

 

Guest Speaker: Novella Carpenter, Ghosttown Farm

 

Resources:

 

• Urban Bee Gardens website

• ATTRA, Farmscaping
• Rick & Gail Luttmann. 1976. Chickens in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press. Ch. 1-6, 8-9, 14-15.

 

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Week 9 (10/28): UA, Planning, Policy & Public Health

 

• Pothukuchi, Kameshwari & Jerome L. Kaufman.  1999. Placing the food system on the urban agenda: The role of municipal institutions in food systems planning. Agriculture & Human Values 16:213-224.

• Serena Unger & Heather Wooten. 2006. Executive Summary. A Food Systems Assessment for Oakland, CA: Towards a Sustainable Food Plan. Oakland Mayor’s Office of Sustainability/UCB. http://oaklandfoodsystem.pbwiki.com/f/OFSA_TOC_ExecSumm.pdf
• Jane Dixon et al. 2007. The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems. The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems. Journal of Urban Health 84(1):188-129.

 

Resources:

 

• RUAF Fact Sheet. Urban Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition.

 

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Week 10 (11/4) UA & Education

 

FIELD TRIP: Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA), (map) PLEASE BE THERE BY 4:15

               (optional field trip to visit bee's at 2:30 before BYA, map to follow)

Readings:

 

• Emily Ozer. 2005. The Effects of School Gardens on Students and Schools: Conceptualization and Considerations for Maximizing Healthy Development. Health Education & Behavior 34(6):846-863.

 

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Week 11 (11/11)

 

NO CLASS (Veteran's Day)

 

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Week 12 (11/18)

 

Review of Sustainability Indicators

Action Research Projects workday

 

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TURKEY SLAUGHTER (11/22): Ghosttown Farm (map) (all spaces are now full)

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Week 13 (11/25) Presentations

 

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Week 14 (12/2) Presentations

 

Wrap-Up, Concluding Remarks, Course Evaluation

 

 

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Week 15 (12/9)

 

PARTY!!! (4pm in the garden)