Dust Bowl & Green Revolution Assignment
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Instructions
Complete the following, citing all your sources APA style (using at least five class sources):
Part 1: Compose a few well-written paragraphs comparing & contrasting the Dust Bowl and the Green Revolution. Address the following:
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- Goals?
- Actors / Stakeholders?
- Role of policy?
- Practices & technologies which characterized them?
- Outcomes & Repercussions?
- Discuss ecosystem services, and affects on biodiversity.
- Important lessons?
- Implications for the future of agriculture?
- Key similarities between the mistakes of the past and actions being taken today? Key differences?
Part 2: Are land stewardship (e.g., ecosystem services, biodiversity) and food production mutually exclusive? Implications of ecosystem services and biodiversity for the future of agriculture. Again, in well-written paragraphs.