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In no particular order:
1. Lean Library- access journal articles seamlessly from home or off-campus
2. Poster Printing/3D printing- all 3D prints for academic or research purposes are free.
3. Browzine- Table of Contents alerting service with easy to use interface. Mobile app available, too!
4. Citation Management Tools- guide to library supplied citation management tools (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks)
5. Relaxation Room- in the Holman Biotech Commons- practice yoga, meditate, assemble a puzzle!
6. Study Rooms- available in all libraries, different sizes for differing needs, all equipped with tech. Just book ahead!
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10. Workshops- Bioinformatics classes on the use of BioCyc and the NCBI databases, GIS+mapping software, Data Visualization, Data Management. For more classes follow the link.
It can be difficult, and downright tricky these days, to determine if current news is trustworthy, accurate and unbiased. Luckily there are common sense measures you can use to evaluate what you read online. When reading online content it is helpful to remember the following principles:
1. Accuracy-Do you feel the information presented is correct? How does it compare to other information you have found?
2. Authority-Who is the author of the page and do they have the credentials to be writing on a topic? Is there an About page or anyway to identify the author?
3. Objectivity-Who is the audience? Is the information being written for the general public or a niche group? Is the content free from advertising? Is the information unbiased?
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5. Currency-Is the information update to date? Has the content been date stamped? Is this old news just being re-hashed?
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Administering and Managing the U. S. Food System by
Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the doing of public policy, would seem to be a logical home for analysis of food systems in action. However, food is largely ignored by public administration scholars, and scholars from other disciplines can unintentionally draw up established public administration literature. The chapters in this edited volume highlight where the lenses and languages of public administration can and should be used to analyze food systems. Viewed collectively, the editors argue that the lenses and languages of public administration can and should become a common ground for scholars and practitioners to discuss food systems.
True Cost Accounting for Food by
"This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving the world adequately. This volume argues that True Cost Accounting in our food system can create a framework for a systemic shift. What sounds on the surface like a practice relegated to accountants is ultimately a call for a new lens on the valuation of food and a new relationship with the food we eat, starting with the reform of a system out of balance. From the true cost of corn, rice and water, to incentives for soil health, the chapters economically compare conventional and regenerative, more equitable farming practices in and food system structures, including taking an unflinching look at the true cost of cheap labour. Overall, this volume points towards the potential for our food system to be more human-centred than profit-centred and one that has a more respectful relationship to the planet. It sets forth a path forward based on True Cost Accounting for food. This path seeks to fix our current food metrics, in policy and in practice, by applying a holistic lens that evaluates the actual costs and benefits of different food systems, and the impacts and dependencies between natural systems, human systems, agriculture and food systems. This volume is essential reading for professionals and policymakers involved in developing and reforming the food system, as well as students and scholars working on food policy, food systems and sustainability"--
Agricultural Policy of the United States by
This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will face over the next generation. The book is organized into three sections. Section one introduces the main themes of the book, explores the pre-Columbian period and early European settlement, and traces the first 150 years of U.S. agricultural policy starting with the post revolution period and ending with the "golden age" of agriculture in the early 20th century. Section two outlines that grand bargain of the 1930s that initiated the modern era of government intervention into agricultural markets and traces this policy evolution to the early days of the 21st century. The third section provides an in-depth examination of six policy issues that dominate current policy discussions and will impact policy decisions for the next generation: trade, environment/conservation, commodity checkoff programs, crop insurance, biofuels, and domestic nutrition programs.
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