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Week 1 Study Questions Required reading: Seufert, V. and Ramankutty, N. 2017. Many shades of gray- The context- dependent performance of organic agriculture. Science Advances 3:e1602638 Lecture: 1. What are the three main advances in agricultural production that led to dramatic yield increases during the Green Revolution? 2. Briefly define sustainable intensification? What are the 3 key strategies of sustainable intensification? 3. What is an ecosystem service? Give a few examples of ecosystem services that are important for agroecological systems. 4. Give a few examples of the concept of systems redesign in agriculture? How does this approach differ from other strategies of sustainable intensification (i.e. gains in efficiency and input substitution)? 5. How has traditional farming systems knowledge shaped these ecological intensification models? Reading: 1) Overall, what surprised you the most in the Seufert and Ramankutty article? Did your view of organic agriculture change in any way? 2) Based on the reading (Fig. 1), what is an example of a tradeoff in organic agriculture? What is an example of a tradeoff in conventional agriculture? (Example for tradeoff in organic: Organic agriculture performs better than conventional in terms of _________________, but performs more poorly than conventional in terms of _________________. ) 3) Describe one variable for which organic performs better than conventional on a per area basis but worse than conventional per unit output (Fig. 1). Why is it meaningful to consider performance on per unit output, in addition to per unit area?
4) Pick one variable for which the authors have evaluated the performance of organic agriculture (Table 1). Under what conditions does organic agriculture perform well in terms of your chosen variable? Why is this the case, according to the authors? 5) Describe one case where the impact of organic agriculture on a variable of interest to the authors is uncertain and why.
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