-January 25
Emerging soil fertility initiatives in Africa
-Erick Fernandes, Professor
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-January 29
Conservation agriculture in developing countries: What is it... and why should we promote it?
- Peter Hobbs, Agronomist
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

-January 31
The economics of shifting cultivation in forested land in Sumatra, Indonesia
-Bustanul Arifin
Visiting Fulbright Scholar and Professor
   Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences
   University of Lampung, Indonesia

-February 5
Technology transfer in developing countries - Can universities reach the rural poor?
- Rob Potter, Techology Coordinator
Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project (ABSP-II)
International Programs, Cornell University

-February 12
Carbon dynamics in Costa Rican alley cropping systems
- Maren Oelbermann, Post Doctoral fellow
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-February 19
Possible roles of alternate land use in villagers' decisions to engage in illegal logging in Indonesia
- Richard Dudley, Visting Fellow
Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

-February 26
Possible soil microbiological explanations of high yields with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Norman Uphoff, Director
Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Devleopment (CIIFAD)

-March 5
Soil health management at Cornell's Dilmun Hill Student Farm
- Marguerite Wells, Manager
Dilmun Hill Student Farm
Ithaca, New York

-March 12
Watershed management issues in Myanmar
- Ngwe Sint
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, Cornell University
Forest Officer, Deparment of Forestry, Myanmar

-March 26
To till or not to till, it's a complicated question
- Harold Van Es, Professor
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-April 2
Update on cover cropping in Bolivia
-Steve Vanek, NewYork-Northern Pennsylvania Coordinator
Northeast Organic Network

-April 9
Medicinal plant cultivation in Kerala, India: A cure for non-wood forest-product based conservation?
-Diji Chandrasekharan BehrBlurb, PhD candidate
Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

-April 16
Farmers' views on disappearing rainforests and degrading agricultural uplands in Madagascar:
What can we learn?
- Erika Styger, Graduate Student
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-April 23
Deforestation in Amazonia: Digging into the Population Pressure Explanation
- John Sydenstricker, Graduate Student
Development Sociology, Cornell University

-April 30
Conservation and development: Synergies or tradeoffs? The case of Costa Rica's Payment for Environmental Services (PES) Program
- Simon Zbinden, Graduate Student
Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
- David Lee, Professor
Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

-September 3
Nutrient management in agriculture as if biogeochemistry mattered
- Laurie Drinkwater, Associate Professor
Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

-September 10
Ecological agricultural engineering in China
- Yang Jingpin
Humphrey Fellow, Cornell University
Director of Agro-Ecology Institute, Zhejiang University, China

-September 17
Greening the desert - Runoff irrigation in Kenya
- Johannes Lehmann, Assistant Professor
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-September 24
Nepal's Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Program
- Prakash Mathema
Humprey Fellow, Cornell University
Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management, Ministry of Forests, Nepal

-October 1
Conservation value of medicinal plants in the Dominican Republic
- Jake Kheel, associate manager
Carriage House Center on Global Issues, New York

-October 8
Agricultural adventures in Afghanistan
- John Duxbury, Professor
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-October 15
Agricultural and other household-level strategies for coping with crop failure in the uplands of Sumba, Indonesia
- Christian Lentz, Graduate student
Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University

-October 22
Spatially explicit modeling of land use decisions by subsistence farming households in the humid forest zone of Cameroon
- Doug Brown, Graduate student
Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

-October 29
The Soil Health Program Work Team - Measuring soil health with New York State farmers
- Jason Kahabka, Project Coordinator
Soil Health Program Work Team/Reduced Tillage, Cornell University

-November 5
Forest farming teaching and research at the MacDaniel's nut grove
- Ken Mudge, Associate Professor
Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

-November 12
Opportunities for collaborative research on soil health: Report from a workshop in South Africa
- Norman Uphoff, Director
Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Devleopment (CIIFAD)
-Janice Thies, Associate Professor
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-November 19
Ecoagiculture: Developing Agricultural Systems that Contribute to Biodiversity Conservation, Watershed Protection and Other Ecosystem Services
- Sara J. Scherr, Director
Ecosystem Services for Forest Trends
Ecoagriculture Partners

-November 26
Management of rice production systems to increase productivity in The Gambia, West Africa
- Mustapha Ceesay, Graduate student
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

-December 3
Development assistance and sustainable agricultural development
- Robert Herdt, Visiting Fellow
Applied Economics and Management/International Programs (CALS)
Cornell University