Teaching assistant
Tung Nguyen
E-mail: ttnguyen209@uh.edu
Office: 207 McElhinney Hall
Fall 2015 Classes
Econ 4389-1: Food Population and the Environment
Econ 4389-2: Development Issues in the Global Economy
Summer 2015 Classes
Econ 3355: Economic Development of Asia
Spring 2015 Classes
ECON 3351: Economic Development
ECON 4389: Food, Population and the Environment
ECON 4198: Independent Study
ECON 4298: Independent Study
ECON 4398: Independent Study
Project Schedule (tentative) for ECON 3351
Project Schedule (tentative) for ECON 4389
Fall 2014 Classes
ECON 3351: Economic Development
ECON 4389: Food, Population and the Environment
ECON 4198: Independent Study
ECON 4298: Independent Study
ECON 4398: Independent Study
Course Notes: Defense of Modern Industrial Agriculture
Course Notes: Green Washing
Course Notes: A Pesticide as Medicine
Course Notes (both 3351 and 4389) part 1
Course Notes (both 3351 and 4389) part 2
Summer 2014 Classes
ECON 3355: Asian Economic Development
ECON 6355: Economic Development of Asia
ECON 4198: Independent Study
ECON 4298: Independent Study
ECON 4398: Independent Study
Spring 2014 Classes
ECON 3351: Economic Development
ECON 4389: Food, Population and the Environment
ECON 4198: Independent Study
ECON 4298: Independent Study
ECON 4398: Independent Study
Course Notes: Defense of Modern Industrial Agriculture
Course Notes: Green Washing
Course Notes: A Pesticide as Medicine
Course Notes (both 3351 and 4389) part 1
Course Notes (both 3351 and 4389) part 2
Fall 2013 Classes
ECON 3351: Economic Development
ECON 4198: Independent Study
ECON 4298: Independent Study
ECON 4389: Food, Population and Environment
ECON 4398: Independent Study
Summer 2013 Classes
ECON 3355: Economic Development of Asia
ECON 6355: Economic Development of Asia
ECON 4198: Independent Study
ECON 4298: Independent Study
ECON 4398: Independent Study
Spring 2013 Classes
ECON 4389: Contemporary Economics – Food and Agriculture, Spring 2013
ECON 4198: Independent Study
ECON 4298-1: Independent Study
ECON 4398-10: Independent Study
ECON 3351-1: Economic Development
Fall 2012 Classes
Summer 2012 Classes
Spring 2012 Classes
Fall 2011 Classes
Summer 2011 Classes
Spring 2011 Classes
Fall 2010 Classes
Relevant Articles:
4/14/2010
1. Michael Specter: The Danger of Science Denial (Text and Video)
1/12/2010
1. The Green Washing of the Green Ideological Agenda (Lecture)
12/16/2009
1. The Green Washing of the Green Ideological Agenda: In defense of Modern Agriculture, Technology and Life.
11-12/2008
1. The Politics of Hunger. How Illusion and Greed Fan the World Food Crisis, by Paul Collier, Foreign Affairs.
09/18/2008
1. Cotton’s Second Coming, by N. Madhavan, Business Today
3/26/2008
1. Greener Than Thou & Genetic Engineering for the Poor (abstracts only, subscription for science direct required for full access)
3/3/2008
1. Challenges Facing CPTM and the World Community
2/15/2008
1. Review of Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: Western Narratives and African Alternatives
2. Hans Rosling: Myths about the Developing World
2/1/2008
1. Transgenic Plants for Tropical Regions
2. Green Revolutionary
3. The Deadly Toll of Wind Power
1/28/2008
1. Third World Environmentalism : case studies from the Global South / N. Patrick Peritore.
1/20/1008
1. Food Politics-Voting with your Trolley
2. Genetic Modification-Filling Tomorrow’s Rice Bowl
1/10/2008
1. Good Food?
2. Human Urine AS a Safe, Inexpensive Fertilizer For Food
3. GM: past, present and future
4. Union of the German Academies of science and Humanities
5. Food Miles
6. Food Miles Lincoln University study
7. The Food Defect Action Levels (click here for link to cached page)
8. Feeding Billion, A Grain at a Time
9. Reasons You Should Buy Regular Goods
10. Organic Food
11. Safety Reports on Agbiotech
12. EU Pesticide Rules May Force Out Small African Farmers
13. Copper fungicide use in farms can promote dangerous bacteria - threatening hospital patients
14. Review: Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate
15. A person’s desk had 400 times more bacteria than a toilet seat
16. Billions at risk from wheat super-blight
17. Seven Academies of Science Urge Action to Promote Use of Biotech in Alleviating World Hunger, Poverty
18. Foodborne Disease Significance of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and other enterohemorrhagic E coli
19. Trends in Food Science & Technology
20. Links to scientific studies of Biotechnology Agriculture
21. Louis Bolk Institute-Sustainable organic plant breeding
22. EU regs and impact on the poor Feb 2007
23. GMO Database
24. Review of data on possible toxicity of GM potatoes
25. Lancet defies GM study advice
26. Scientists In Support of Agricultural Biotechnology
27. DEFRA study highlights challenges of “sustainable consumption”
28. Food or Filth? The European Paradox
29. Who’s who in Biotech
30. Engineering the Provitamin A Biosynthetic Pathway into Rice Endosperm, require free registration, or only be viewed in library
31. Potential impact and cost-effectiveness of Golden Rice, and
32. Supplementary Information, require free registration, or only be viewed in library (the link for the supplementary information can also be found at the end 2nd paragraph of “To the editor” on the full article website)
33. The Adoption and Economics of Bt Cotton in India
-Conclusions
34. People in Rich Countries Have More Sexual Partners
35. Sexual behavior in context: a global perspective
36. XDR Tuberculosis — Implications for Global Public Health
37. All-Natural Child Endangerment
38. A Review of Alex Avery’s “The Truth About Organic Foods”
39. New Yorker Cartoon by Alex Gregory (One caveman talking to another)
40. The Fallacies of Organic Farming
41. Labor, Employment and Social Security in an Expanding Economy Historical Perspective
42. Pee-Cycling
43. Related Links on Pee-Cycling
44. Confounding and control
45. BBC: Getting the best out of your food
46. BBC: Overweight 'top world's hungry'
47. Study supports corn toxin as culprit in birth defects
48. A heretofore undisclosed crux of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome: compromised histamine degradation
49. Lid lifted on organic milk
50. GM Insulin and diabetes
52. Aids dry sex or Hot, Tight and Dry Sex
53. HIV/AIDS - To find articles focusing on some of the factors
54. Missing a Golden Rice opportunity
55. CU-Boulder Study Shows Soy Diet Worsens Heart Disease In Mice
56. Putting GM technologies to work: public research pipelines in selected African countries
57. Biotechnology and the African Farmer
58. Gas Discoveries Rise as Copenhagen Calls
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