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Possible Plan for work (open for discussion!!)

Presentation document given: Reaping the benefits- science and sustainable intensification of

global agriculture.

Overall Objectives:

1. Create and deliver a PowerPoint presentation based on:- What the presentation document is about.- How it relates to elements of the course.

2. A portfolio document including:- An opening statement explaining what the concept is (derived from the presentation

document). 500 words in length.

- A commentary on the 25 newspaper articles. 2000 words in length- 80 words for eachnewspaper article.

- Photocopies of the 25 articles (to be spread over a couple of A4 pages).Overall deadline: Week 7.

Plan:

I have put together a plan we could use if youre ok with it- Ive split the work up but I havent

allocated it to anyone specific; if you like to plan just select which Person (1-7) you would like to be

and let everyone know via the facebook group.

1. Everyone read sections of the presentation document (too big for everyone to read all of it).Its difficult to allocate pages to people and makes more sense to allocate the various

chapters, so.(in the order of the document):

Person 1- An urgent challenge, Trends in food crop production, Science in context, The need

for sustainable intensification and Agricultural sustainability.

Person 2- Agriculture and sustainable economic development, Other major studies, Further

UK work, About this report and Conduct of the Study.

Person 3- Climate Change, Water, Temperature, Ozone and Soil Factors.

Person 4- Crop nutrition, Pests (etc), Energy and greenhouse gas emissions and Maintenance

of genetic resources and germplasm availability.

Person 5- Introduction, Tools for research and technology and Applications of research.

Person 6- Conclusion, The natural environment and externalities, Human Health, Social and

Economic systems and Extension and technology transfer.

Person 7- Innovating towards sustainable intensification, Meeting the challenge of global

food security, Scientific targets, The capacity to innovate and Making Science make a

difference.

Person 5 has the most to read (Applications of research drags on) so this has been taken into

consideration and they have slightly less to do later on.

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Deadline: Monday Week 4 (7th

Jan)- we meet, everyone says what their document-sections

were about and this will allow us to move on!

2. Everyone gathers newspaper articles relating to what the presentation document wasabout:

Person 1- 4 articles from The Times

Person 2- 4 articles from The Guardian

Person 3- 4 articles from The Independent

Person 4- 4 articles from the Daily Telegraph

Person 5- 3 articles from The Economist

Person 6- 3 articles from New Statesman

Person 7- 3 articles from the Spectator

Then each person needs to write an 80 word commentary on each of their articles. The

commentary should focus on the main points of the article and link them to course themes,

social theorists etc. Any references used should be noted alongside each separate

commentary. Everyone needs to then upload their article commentaries to the facebook

group so we all have access.

In addition to this: Person 3 will create the first half of PowerPoint presentation (what the

presentation document was about). This will then be sent to Person 7 (please see below).

Deadline: End of week 5 (Friday 18th

Feb).

3. Person 6- write 500 word opening statement to the portfolio document (then upload tofacebook group)

Person 7- do second half of PowerPoint presentation (about how the presentation

document relates to themes in the course)

Deadline: Wednesday week 6 (23rd Feb)

4. Person 4- using uploaded documents on facebook group: collate and format portfoliodocument.

Person 1- from uploaded documents on facebook group: create reference list to go at the

end of the portfolio document then send to Person 4 to be added to work.

Deadline: End of week 6 (Sun 27th Feb)

5. We meet on Monday (28th Feb) to look at the PowerPoint presentation and hand over all ournewspaper articles to Person 2 to be photocopied, put on A4 pages and stapled to the back

of the portfolio document (to be printed by Person 2 also).

DONE!!!!!