UNIV 201 - Global Challenges Inquiry 1

Exercise: Find an article for January 24

Topic

Technology and agriculture

Assignment

Find an article that you can share with the class to further your conversation on the global challenge of feeding 9 billion people

Possible Angles to Consider and Search

1) What are some profitable ways that farmers can expand production capacity?

2) What are the implications (positive and negative) of irrigation expansion?

3) What is feed efficiency and what is the relationship between feed intake and heritable traits, farmer/rancher profits, animal behaviour and animal health? How is this studied and measured?

4) How can hybrid crops increase production, sustainability and profit? What are the opportunities and challenges?

5) What are the various methods of pest and weed control?

6) What are livestock biometrics and how are they collected?

7) What is vertical farming?

Finding Scholarly Articles

While the Library Search box is a great source to begin your search for books and articles, it is also very helpful to use databases to locate scholarly journal articles on your topic:

CAB Abstracts (via EBSCO)

CAB abstracts is a bibliographic database compiled by CAB International. It covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources. CAB abstracts indexes articles, books, conferences, reports and other kinds of literature dated 1910 to the present.
Environment Complete
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Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 600 journals.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
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Academic Search Complete provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
BIOSIS Previews
Issued as a part of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the database covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology. Also included are interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology. The database covers content summaries, books, meeting abstracts, papers, and posters. BIOSIS also combines the content from Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.
- BIOSIS Previews replaces Biological Abstracts as of January 1, 2007
- Coverage is 1980 to present.
- BIOSIS Multimedia Tutorial

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Exercise: Find an article for January 24

Finding Scholarly Articles