AGS 701 (Basics of Agricultural Systems)
Assignment No.2
1. Read: Lal, R. 2004. Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change. Geoderma (In Press). Corrected Proof, Available online 16 April 2004.

       Albrecht, A. and S. T. Kandji. 2003. Carbon sequestration in tropical agroforestry systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 19:15-27.

Discuss:
 

a) What is soil carbon sequestration and its global potential?
b) What are the management strategies the consequences of increasing soil carbon sequestration?
c) What are the roles of agroforestry systems in mitigating global warming effects?

2. Read: Tan, G. and R. Shibasaki. 2003. Global estimation of crop productivity and the impacts of global warming by GIS and EPIC integration. Ecological Modelling 168 (3): 357-370. Discuss the effect of climate changes on productivity of major crops and cropping systems in Asia as the results of systems modeling in this paper.

3. Discuss the current state of the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and problems involved with the implementation of Kyoto Protocol.

(You should provide hard evidences from the published articles and cite the relevant references to support your discussion.)

Due: June 24, 2004.