Reforming Intellectual-Property Policies to Promote Agricultural Innovation
- "Reforming Intellectual-Property Policies to Promote Agricultural Innovation" by Leland Glenna
Nov 6, 2024 - Dr. Leland Glenna (PhD, M.Div) is a Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology & Society at The Pennsylvania State University. He shares his research on the blending of agricultural crops and utility patents, and how utility patents are so restrictive that they limit agricultural innovation. Glenna advocates ending utility patents on agricultural crops.
First the Seed: the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000 by Call Number: 631.52 K695f 2004 c.1ISBN: 9780299192440Publication Date: 2005-03-16
An Introduction to Legal, Regulatory and Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Biotechnology by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9789815080629Publication Date: 2023-01-17
The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781552503973Publication Date: 2008-01-01
The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age
- "The Blue Revolution" by Nicholas P. SullivanNov 14, 2023 - Nicholas P. Sullivan, author of The Blue Revolution, surveyed the people, policies, and technologies that are modernizing commercial fishing to prioritize value over volume through controlled harvesting and farming instead of unrestrained hunting. Sullivan showcases the fishermen, entrepreneurs, and investors forging new opportunities in the blue-green economy.
The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781642832181Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Modern Fisheries Engineering: Realizing a Healthy and Sustainable Marine Ecosystem by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781000201321Publication Date: 2020-10-20
Transforming the Fisheries: Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803285866Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Delaware River Basin Commission
- "The Delaware River Basin Commission" by Peter A. EschbachFebruary 2020 - The Delaware River is an interconnected 13,500-square-mile basin of water. Four states, 42 counties, and 838 municipalities argued over taking water out, dumping waste in, and who was in charge. In response, a Supreme Court lawsuit was filed and in 1961 the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) was formed. Peter A. Eschbach, Director of External Affairs and Communications for the DRBC, presents on how the commission, the four states, and the federal government came together to clean up the river, manage droughts, and take on new challenges like microplastics and climate change.
- "Our Shared Waters: A Look at the Delaware River Basin" by Elizabeth BrownOct 20, 2022 - Elizabeth Brown, the current Director of External Affairs and Communications for the DRBC, presents an update on the challenges they face in managing and improving our shared water resources and the many stakeholder groups and partners whose work supports its continued sustainability now and for future generations.
- Ecology and Restoration of the Delaware River Basin byCall Number: 333.73 EC73 Copy 1ISBN: 0960667083Publication Date: 1988-03-01
Water Rights and the Environment in the United States by Call Number: 346.7304691 B892w Copy 1ISBN: 9781440838026Publication Date: 2015-07-20
Stream and Watershed Restoration by Call Number: 333.916216 R669s Copy 1ISBN: 9781405199551Publication Date: 2012-12-26
The Economics of Sustainable Food
- "The Economics of Sustainable Food" by Nicoletta BatiniSept 8, 2022 - Nicoletta Batini, an Italian economist and notable scholar of innovative monetary and fiscal policy practices, illustrates the true cost of food for people and the planet, how to transform our broken food system, and alleviate its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. Batini takes a multidisciplinary approach to laying out the fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Batini is an expert in the field of macroeconomic strategies, particularly where public health, climate change, and food systems combine. She is a lead evaluator at the International Monetary Fund.
The Economics of Sustainable Food by Call Number: Island PressISBN: 9781642831627Publication Date: 2021-06-08
Fair Food: growing a healthy, sustainable food system for all by Call Number: 338.1973 H469f c.1ISBN: 9781610390064Publication Date: 2011-05-31
From Farm to Fork: Perspectives on Growing Sustainable Food Systems in the Twenty-First Century by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781629220116Publication Date: 2015-11-20
Agroecology Now! : Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9783030613150Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Food Systems Institute at Delaware Valley UniversityFounded to develop, foster, and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and education on all aspects of food production and manufacturing in all schools and departments at the University.
- Climate WatchClimate Watch is an online platform designed to empower policymakers, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change.
Defining Sustainable Agriculture Production in a Changing Climate
- "Defining Sustainable Agriculture Production in a Changing Climate" by Dr. Christopher GambinoApr 28, 2022 - Dr. Christopher Gambino, former assistant professor of Animal Science at Delaware Valley University, presents his findings on the varying definitions of sustainable agriculture production. He collected data on a diverse population of undergraduate students, and uses that to show the variety of mental models people possess around this topic. Dr. Gambino talks about the Good Farmer inventory, defining sustainable agriculture, and how we can prepare the next generation to tackle the complex issues surrounding producing food/fiber & feeding people.
Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781571318718Publication Date: 2013-09-16
Fresh Banana Leaves : Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Call Number: ProQuest EBook CentralISBN: 9781623176068Publication Date: 2022-01-18
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9780520952119Publication Date: 2012-04-10
The Bioeconomy : Delivering Sustainable Green Growth by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781786392763Publication Date: 2018
For the land sharing / land sparing debate referenced in the presentation, you can read the three works below in this order because they connect.
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Thicker than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastics Crisis
- "Thicker than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastics Crisis" by Erica CirinoApr 6, 2022 - Erica Cirino, science writer, artist, and author of Thicker than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis, joins us to talk about her findings as she travels the world on a photojournalistic journey, uncovering the hard truths of the plastic industry and the damage they have caused. She documents plastic across ecosystems and elements, shares stories from the primarily Black, Brown, Indigenous and rural communities that are disproportionately harmed by industrial pollution globally, and uncovers strategies that work to prevent plastic from causing further devastation to our planet and its inhabitants.
Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis by Call Number: 363.7288 C496t Copy 1ISBN: 9781642831375Publication Date: 2021-10-07
Plastic Soup: an atlas of ocean pollution by Call Number: 363.738 R716p Copy 1ISBN: 1642830089Publication Date: 2019-04-04
Plastic: a toxic love story by Call Number: 620.1923 F883p Copy 1ISBN: 9780547152400Publication Date: 2011-04-18
Plastic-Free: how I kicked the plastic habit and you can too by Call Number: 363.738 T279p Copy 1ISBN: 9781616086244Publication Date: 2012-06-15
- Erica Cirino's WebsiteFollow Erica in her research, photojournalism, news, presentations, and writings.
- Plastic Pollution CoalitionPlastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of more than 1,200 organizations, businesses, and thought leaders in 75 countries working toward a more just, equitable world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, waterways, oceans, and the environment.
Agricultural Robotics System Design
November 2, 2021
Professor Simon Blackmore of Harper Adams University (retired) presents how our current agricultural system is unsustainable. It uses too much energy and depletes soil quality and impacts its structure. It relies on agrochemicals, indiscriminately sprayed, and manual labor that is increasingly scarce. Overall, it's wasteful and inefficient. That's where robots come in! As the former Head of Engineering at Harper Adams, director of the National Centre for Precision Farming, and manager of the European FutureFarm Project, Professor Blackmore discusses precision farming that uses agricultural robotics, systems thinking, and non-agricultural technologies (like A.I., machine vision, smart phones, etc.). See related resources below.
Precision Agriculture Basics by Call Number: 631 P911 Copy 1ISBN: 9780891183662Publication Date: 2018
Environmental Impacts of Modern Agriculture by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781849734974Publication Date: 2012-07-05
Megatrends in Food and Agriculture by Call Number: ProQuest Ebook CentralISBN: 9781119391166Publication Date: 2017-10-31
Food Safety, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Climate Change
September 9, 2021
Dr. Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, provides a brief overview of the One Health matrix tool and applies it, as an example, to examine the global impact of human and animal fecal wastes. Applying the tool reveals linkages between food-borne illnesses, food insecurity, antimicrobial resistance, and climate change. Understanding these linkages is necessary for developing effective and equitable public policies that are needed to achieve many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Kahn's work over the years has been instrumental in forming the One Health Initiative! See related resources below.
One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance by Call Number: 616.9041 K122o Copy 1ISBN: 9781421420042Publication Date: 2016-08-15
The Big Necessity: the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters by Call Number: 363.72 R72b Copy 1ISBN: 9780805082715Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Managing Livestock Wastes to Preserve Environmental Quality by Call Number: 628.7466 M662m Copy 1ISBN: 0813826357Publication Date: 2001-01-24
Nourished Planet: sustainability in the global food system by Call Number: 338.19 N853 Copy 1ISBN: 9781610918947Publication Date: 2018-06-28
Vision for a Return: Black Food Sovereignty and the Post-Pandemic City
February 24th, 2021 - Co-sponsored by the Heritage Conservancy
Ashley Gripper, founder of Land Based Jawns and a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard presents on the intersections of Black farming, mental health, and spirituality through a scholar-activist lens. She shares her hopes and vision for food sovereignty and ecology in the post pandemic society.
Gripper was born and raised in Philadelphia. Her food and land work focuses on Black folks' connection and re-connection to the Creator, to ancestors, to each other, and to the land. Land Based Jawns is a spiritually rooted organization that provides education and training to Black Philly women on natural agriculture, carpentry, land based living, and self-defense with a focus on self and community healing. Gripper is a farmer-in-training at Sankofa Community Farm in Southwest Philadelphia. She is also a member of Soil Generation and is working with the team to design Philly’s first Urban Agriculture Plan. In her academic work, she studies environmental health. Her research looks at the impact of urban agriculture on mental health, spirituality, and collective agency for Black people, and is supported by the Health Policy Research Scholars program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. See related resources below.
We Want Land to Live: making political space for food soverignty by Call Number: 338.19 T693w c.1ISBN: 9780820350271Publication Date: 2017-03-01
Black, White, and Green: farmers markets, race, and the green economy by Call Number: 381.41 AL49b c.1ISBN: 9780820343891Publication Date: 2012-11-01
Cities of Farmers: urban agricultural practices and processes by Call Number: 635.09173 C498 c.1ISBN: 9781609384371Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Food and Poverty by Call Number: 363.80973 F739 Copy 1ISBN: 9780826522030Publication Date: 2018-09-24
- Land Based JawnsLand-based Jawns is an organization rooted first and foremost in spirit and the spiritual practices of our ancestors. We provide education and training to Black, brown, and Indigenous women on agriculture, survival + self-defense, carpentry, and self + community healing. Our work and training is guided by many of the skills and lessons highlighted in the Parable of the Sower series by our beloved ancestor Octavia Butler.
PFAs in Pennsylvania: the threat of "forever chemicals"
February 11, 2020
Pennsylvania State Senator Maria Collett, Hope Grosse and Joanne Stanton (BuxMont Coalition for Safe Water), Dr. Sharon Watkins (PA Epidemiologist and Director of the Department of Health's Bureau of Epidemiology), and Kyle Bagenstose (journalist, USA Today Network) discuss PFAs in Pennsylvania and how these "forever chemicals" threaten our health and environment, and what we can do about it. See related resources below.
Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology by Call Number: 571.95 N466f 2010 Copy 1ISBN: 9781420067040Publication Date: 2009-09-28
The Dose Makes the Poison by Call Number: 615.9 F851d 2011 Copy 1ISBN: 9780470381120Publication Date: 2011-03-22
Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What WE THE PEOPLE Can Do About It by Call Number: 363.7394 B783s Copy 1ISBN: 9781524746964Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- Buxmont Coalition for Safe Water - ResourcesThis organization formed in response to the PFA crisis in Bucks and Montgomery Counties. They have accumulated a multitude of resources for those affected.
- Unwell WaterReporters Kyle Bagenstose and Jenny Wagner have been investigating and writing extensively on the topic, telling the stories of local people who believe they’ve been sickened by the chemicals, speaking with health experts on the potential toxicity of the chemicals, and examining the actions taken by local, state and federal agencies as they address the contamination.
- Environmental Protection Agency - PFASThe EPA's information on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).
Farming in Climate Chaos
September 25th, 2019, Co-Sponsored by Food Systems Institute
Journalist Katherine Rapin shared insights gathered from her reporting on how Pennsylvania farmers are adapting to extreme weather caused by climate change, and how the practices they implement can hasten mitigation.
You can read her article “Farming in Climate Chaos" in the latest issue of Edible Philly. See related resources below.
How to Feed the World by Call Number: 338.19 H83 Copy 1ISBN: 9781610918831Publication Date: 2018-03-15
The Carbon Farming Solution by Call Number: 338.162 T57c Copy 1ISBN: 9781603585712Publication Date: 2016-02-22- High Tunnels: using low-cost technology to increase yields, improve quality, and extend the season. byCall Number: AV 635.9823 H537 Copy 1Publication Date: 2006
- The Climate Reality ProjectFounded by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore, the Climate Reality Project is dedicated to catalyzing a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society. This organization has a variety of information and links to other reputable sites regarding climate change and its affects.
Food from the Radical Center
March 6, 2019 - 6:00pm Life Sciences Auditorium, Co-Sponsored by the Heritage Conservancy. Author book-signing followed.
Food from the Radical Center: Healing our Land and Communities narrates the collaboration of diverse communities to revive healthy, local food production. In a divided nation, efforts to support local food systems are bringing people with different political views, cultures, and religions together and providing hope for future conservation initiatives. Land and rare species restoration have brought economic, ecological, and social success to U.S. communities.
With 50 years of community based project experience, Gary Paul Nabhan provides a unique perspective on the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. He offers an inclusive vision of environmentalism and stories of healing through community-based recovery of food producing landscapes. Nabhan is an award-winning author and agrarian activist whose 36 books have been translated into eight languages. He is an agricultural ecologist, ethnobiologist, and the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Southwestern Borderlands Food and Water Security at the University of Arizona. Nabhan is considered a pioneer of the local food movement, and has been honored with a MacArthur Genius award and awards from the Societies for Conservation Biology and Ethnobiology. He raises heritage fruits, heirloom chilis, and spices near the Mexican border.
Food from the Radical Center by Call Number: 333.95097 N112f Copy 1ISBN: 9781610919197Publication Date: 2018-09-27
A Thirsty Land: Making & Unmaking of an American Crisis
October 18, 2018 - 6:00pm Life Sciences Auditorium, Co-Sponsored by the Master’s of Public Policy (MPP). Author book-signing followed.
McGraw published “A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis” in 2018. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed “The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone,” and “Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Line of Climate Change.” He has been a contributor to many publications, such as the New York Times and the Huffington Post.
He has received the Freedom of Information Award from the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Golden Quill Award, as well as honors from the Casey Foundation and the Society of Professional Journalists. A father of four, he lives in the woods of northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife, Kren, his children, and a neighborly bear with boundary issues.
A Thirsty Land by Call Number: 333.91 M178t Copy 1ISBN: 1477310312Publication Date: 2018-05-09
