Courses

• Campus based courses
   
  • IPM
  • Soil Health
  • Biotechnology and crop health
  • Biological Control
  • Pest resistance management
  • Plant pathology
  • Plant breeding and genetics
  • Entomology
  • Weed science
  • Traditional Agriculture and plant health
  • Rural sociology
     
• Online courses
   
  • IPM (in preparation)
  • Soil microbial interactions (In preparation)

Seminars Fall 2001

• Entomology (Ithaca)
• Entomology (Geneva)
• Plant Pathology (Ithaca)
• Plant Pathology (Geneva)
• CIIFAD seminars
• Plant Breeding

Training Programs

• Soil health management

Outline
This course is ideal for organizations moving to more agro-ecological approaches to agriculture and for organizations interested in ecological approaches to soil management.

The nature of soil and its functions are studied from the perspective of health and health management combining the latest in scientific with the best of traditional knowledge on soils.

Areas Covered

• the fundamental concepts of soil health and quality,
• the components of soil and their interaction,
• the functions of the soil,
• the role of soil in agricultural environments in changing social and economic and technological environments from ancient, to modern non industrial and industrial systems,
• the agro-ecological constraints and management of soils to sustain its function and productivity in changing environments and knowledge.

When given: On demand

Contact:
Francine Jasper fj10@cornell.edu
Peter Trutmann pt15@cornell.edu

• Pest resistance management
   
  • Management of resistance to pesticides

Outline
Discussed is the nature of the process of the development of resistance by arthropod pests and pathogens to pesticides and management strategies to maximize the life of pesticides and reduce the risk to human, environmental health.

When given: On Demand

Contact:
Francine Jasper fj10@cornell.edu
Peter Trutmann pt15@cornell.edu
Tony Shelton ams5@cornell.edu

• Management of resistance to genes and gene products

The development of resistance by arthropod pests, pathogens and weeds to gene products is a fundamental concern to the sustainable use of pest management tools of genetic resources in agriculture. Mismanagement of genetic resources in agriculture causes boom ana bust cycles that are economically highly costly and socially leave producers exposed to higher production risk levels.. Covered in the course is the history of genetic resistance, the nature of the development of resistance, traditional and modern breeding strategies and the development of GMO such as transgenics producing Bt toxin, common means of employing genes in agriculture and strategies to minimize risk of the development of resistance. 

• Biosafety
  
  (In development)