Extra Credit Activities

 

Attend seminars in the “Feeding the World: Are we Making Progress” series:

            12:00 – 1:00 pm, Ensminger Room, 1204 Kildee       

            Sept 9: Uganda – ISU Student Service Learning presentation

            Oct 7: TBA

Nov 4: Role of Livestock in Building Human, Institutional and Financial Capital in

 Developing Countries

            Dec 2: TB A

            More Information is available online. 5 points Extra Credit (must sign in and write

            a ½ page typed report about what you learned)


Attend seminar "Getting the Cockroach Out of the Salad - Emerging Food Outlets and Restructuring of the Supply Chain in Uganda"
     Monday, September 29, 2008 3:30-5:00 p.m. 8 Curtiss Hall. Sheila Onzere, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology and Sustainable Agriculture.  5 points Extra Credit (must sign in and write a 1/2 page typed report
     about what you learned.

 

Two opportunities to earn extra credit occur in October, in association with the World Food Prize:

Attend this year’s Norman Borlaug Lecture in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union on campus, Monday Oct 13, 8 pm. The speaker is Sir Gordon Conway, an agricultural ecologist, and pioneer of sustainable agriculture in the developing world.  His talk is entitled: “The Global Agricultural Crisis of the 21st Century.”  More information available online.  5 points Extra Credit (must sign in and write a ½ page typed report about what you learned).

Attend the Iowa Hunger Summit, October 14 in Des Moines.  This day-long free event will be attended by other students from the FSHN department (also for extra credit).  Information is available online.  10 points Extra Credit.  (must sign in and write 1 page typed report about what you learned.