Year
hired: |
2002 |
Specialty: | Agricultural
and food systems, development, Africa (Mali and Côte
d'Ivoire) |
Research
interests: |
Agrarian
change and natural resource management |
Recent
Publications: |
Becker, Laurence and Yoboué, N'guessan. Rice Producer -- Processor Networks in Côte d'Ivoire. Geographical Review. In press.
Becker, Laurence and Yoboué, N'guessan. 2004. Le riz dans l'ancienne
"Boucle du cacao" de Côte d'Ivoire. Autrepart 31:133-150.
Becker, Laurence. 2001. Seeing green in Mali's woods: Colonial
legacy, forest use, and local control. Annals of the Association
of American Geographers 91(3):504-526.
Becker, Laurence. 2000. Garden money buys grain: Food procurement
patterns in a Malian village. Human Ecology 28(2):219-250. |
Recent
Graduate Student Titles: |
Loynes, Katy (2008) Land Trusts in the New West: Conserving and Responding to Local Geographies? (Master's of Science)
Ndzeidze, Stephen (2008) Detecting Chnages in a Wetland: Using Multi-Spectral and Temporal Landsat in the Upper Noun Valley Drainage Basin, Cameroon (Master's of Science)
Bernard, Mark (2007) Determining relative benefits to communities from urban and agricultural land use change in Napa County, California (Master's of Science)
Wade, Michael (2007) Evaluation of deforestation in the Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras (Master's of Science)
Anderson, Carl (2007) Change detection of land cover in a meadow landscape, the "Ranches" meadow, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon (Master's of Science) |
Courses
taught: |
GEO 105 - Geography of the Non-Western World
GEO 106 - Geography of the Western World
GEO 312 - Human Geography
GEO 325 - Geography of Africa
GEO 330 - Geography of International Development and Globalization
GEO 426/526 - Third World Resource Development |
Degrees & Post-Doc: |
Post-doc at the West African Rice Development Association (WARDA) in Cote d'Ivoire (now called the Africa Rice Center)
PhD
in Geography, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London, 1989
MA in Education, Stanford University, 1982
BA in Geography, University of California at Berkeley, 1981 |
Office: |
Wilkinson
238, phone 541-737-9504 |
Email: |
beckerla@geo.oregonstate.edu |
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