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Welcome to the Farm Policy Group.
I'm looking forward to 'meeting' you all and working on this project
with you. The first thing we need to do is find a time to meet in our
chat room. I'd like to allow about an hour and a half once a week for
our group meeting. Some of you supplied times you are available to
meet, but not all of you. Please send me the times you CAN meet Monday
through Friday, and note your TIME ZONE. In addition, if you are
interested in being a theme leader, please send me a paragraph
explaining why you are interested, what skills you bring, and how
over-committed you are this semester. Also, please send your CV if you
haven't already posted it. Please get me your meeting availability as
soon as possible so we can schedule the first meeting.
I have posted some readings and web links in the Farm Policy Theme
folder. To prepare for our first meeting, I would like you to
--*** Make sure you can get into chat!!**** Some people have had problems - contact Ashley if you do.
--browse through the posted materials
--read any two of the posted papers or other papers that you find that
are relevant (and please post them or send to me for posting)
--be prepared to briefly introduce yourself - your interests and background
--think about 1-2 questions/directions you are interested in following in this theme group.
I look forward to hearing from you soon with your meeting availability.
Sincerely,
Juliann
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Juliann Aukema
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
735 State Street, Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
aukema@nceas.ucsb.edu
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu
(805) 892-2527
FAX (805) 892-2510
I have written some brief presentation about myself, sorry if my english is not so perfect. Of course I will be open the improve my communication skills.
This is the presentation that I wrote:
My name is Alberto Lazaro, my first studies was about Clinical Lab at San Marcos University in Peru, after that I shift my interest and went to study Humanities and Philosophy, also in Lima- Peru. In Brazil I got the Bachelor degree in Theology.
I have been working for more than five years in the Peruvian rainforest, on the Marañón area, with two ethnic groups: the Awajun and Wampis, both of them from the ethno linguistic root of Jivaros. I have worked with the young people at the Technical farming high school Fe y Alegria 55. The aim of this school is offer an opportunity of dialogue between the cultural knowledge in those which comes from western culture, the goal of this effort is improve the skill of those young local people to face their socio-economic and environmental challenges.
Also, I worked for some short period of time in the Madeira River area, the Amazon rainforest of Brasil among the Munduruku people, other ethnig group of Brasil.
From my personal experience I have one affirmation, that any model of economic sustainability must be follow for the construction of social webs and also institutional consolidation. From this personal experience I would like to know other experience and change ideas.
Some topics of interest are promotion of rural institutions vs centralist power and its dynamics; profitability of rural entrepreneurs vs global market. What would be the necessary legal and social framework to guarantee the quality and dignity of life for the rural poor people?
Happy to be part of this project.
Greetings and "see" you soon.
Alberto
Hello everyone! My name is Amy Locke and I am a first year Master of Environmental Science and Management student at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB). I unfortunately won't be able to join the chat until the end of this winter quarter, but I will be reading the transcripts and contributing as much as I can without attending the chats.
A little bit about me: I graduated from the University of Notre Dame in May 2006 with an environmental science major and an anthropology minor. Now, I am focusing on conservation planning, with an emphasis on the protection and conservation of threatened and endangered species. Previously I have studied primates, observing cotton topped tamarins and western lowland gorillas. What am I doing in a group studying Farm Policy? Well, I hope to gain both knowledge and skills in evaluating the current state of agriculture and learn more on how agriculture contributes to and/or takes away from ecosystem services. Moreover, I'm interested in the use of policy in affecting agricultural landscapes. I know these are very general interests, but I am very excited about learning a lot of new and important information in this project! Can't wait to meet all of you!