Vandermeer Agroecology Lecture Series

SFSI affiliate Dr. John Vandermeer filmed and edited a series of short lectures on Agroecology during the COVID-19 pandemic for his graduate level class at the University of Michigan during Fall 2020. This series of 11 lectures is meant to give the viewers/students an overview of the many aspects of Agroecology as a scientific field and as a global movement. Dr. Vandermeer is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.

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  Dr. Hannah Wittman | “Agroecology as Resistance: Visualizing rural-urban networks in a time of erasure”
  February 10th, 2022 Brazil at a Crossroads: Environmental and Food Politics Under the Bolsonaro Regime Agroecological transitions in Brazil are challenged by inequitable access to land, contested politics about how to “feed the world while cooling the planet” and high… Read more: Dr. Hannah Wittman | “Agroecology as Resistance: Visualizing rural-urban networks in a time of erasure”
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 1 “What Is Agroecology?”
  This is the first of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 2 “Food Acquisition”
  This is the second of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 3 “Food Regimes”
  This is the third of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 4 “Photosynthesis and other things”
  This is the fourth of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 5 “Plant Nutrition”
  This is the fifth of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 6 “Pests and Management”
  This is the sixth of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 7 “Pathogens and Management”
  This is the seventh of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 8 “Soil Basics”
  This is the eighth of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 9 “Soil Colloids, SOM, Biology”
  This is the ninth of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 11 “Political action, Chayanovian dynamics”
  This is the eleventh of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.
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  John Vandermeer | Lecture 10 “Complex Systems 2”
  This is the tenth of a series of lectures by Prof. John Vandermeer, Univeristy of Michigan, on Agroecology.