Don Lotter publications
Published articles and papers Don Lotter ** = my most cited papers, bold = most significant
Teaching Redesign for student engagement and equitability.
How the U.S. can compete with China in Africa Foreign Service Journal: April 2021 and April 2016. Building U.S. higher education outreach in Africa.
Toward Equitability and Transformative Engagement of Science-Phobic Students: Use of two teacher-easy & student-easy auto-graded fill-in-the-blank quizzes per lecture to replace or compliment exams. Self published. Teaching with Canvas and Zoom. T
**The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science – Part 1: The Development of a Flawed Enterprise Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food
**The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science – Part 2: Academic Capitalism and the Loss of Scientific Integrity This paper is getting cited, see below.
Microgasification cookstoves and pellet fuels from waste biomass: a cost and performance comparison with charcoal and natural gas in Tanzania. Lotter, D., D. Msola, N. Hunter, and M. Straub. 2015. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. Vol. 9(6), pp. 573-583, June 2015. DOI: 10.5897/AJEST2015.1901
Lotter, D., et al. 2014. African Indigenous and Traditional Vegetables in Tanzania: Production, Post-Harvest Management, and Marketing. African Crop Science Society Journal. 22(3):181-190.
**Lotter, D. 2014. Facing food insecurity in Africa: Why, after 30 years of work in organic agriculture, I am promoting the use of synthetic fertilizers and herbicides in small-scale staple crop production. Agriculture and Human Values. October, 2014.
Lotter, D. 2010. Making connections to healthy soils, sustainable agriculture in East Africa. BioCycle. October. p. 44-45
**Hepperly, P., D. Lotter, C. Ziegler, R. Seidel, and C. Reider. 2009. "Compost, Manure, and Synthetic Fertilizer Influence Crop Yields, Soil Properties, Nitrate Leaching and Crop Nutrient Content". Compost Science and Utilization 17(2): 117-126.
Lotter, D.W., R. Koch, and W. Liebhardt. 2003. The Performance of Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems in an Extreme Climate Year. Amer. J. Altern. Agric. 21(4), 1-9
Lotter, D. 2008. Sizing-up organic farming in Mexico. In: S. Gosh (Ed.) Organic Farming: A Global Perspective. Pp. 133-139. ICFAI University Press.
Lotter, D. 2008. Organic viticulture, systemic acquired resistance, and wine quality. Organic Wine Journal. 11 Nov. (This article looks like it was kind of tossed up to the web by the young publisher, but not edited - the author of the article (me) is not published until the very bottom. But it's all there, with references, but again, not edited.)
Lotter, D. 2009. The Internet-telephone interview as a classroom teaching tool. Journal of College Science Teaching. Jan-Feb p. 52-53.
Africa 2009 - present
Maize smut fungus: turning a crop disease into food
Articles from The Rodale Institute's The New Farm magazine:
Northwest US Organic farm tour 2005 CASE STUDY: Transitioning to organic: Pine Creek Orchards - Lessons learned in a mature organic sector
On the trail of sustainable farming in Mexico and Guatemala 2004
Final reflections on U.S. agriculture before bowling into Baja
Wine, olives, and nopales in Baja California
Agave country and no one can afford to grow it!
Growing corn in Mexico, post NAFTA
Transgenic contamination of Mexican corn adds insult to NAFTA injury
Pulque: Mexico’s unique and vanishing drink
Organic farming in Mexico: an overview
The ancianas of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala reflect on 50 years of hardship and struggle
Organic farming in California 2004
The Davis Farmers' Market, thirty years on
2004 "California Conference on Biological Control and Organic Production", UC Berkeley
Conversations with folks in the first US county to ban GM crops
Portrait of a pioneering California organic wine family
Flowers and fine olive oil in California's Central Valley
2003 Latin America tour
Letter from Highland Guatemala: 26 years later: How has farming changed for one Mayan family?
Out of the ashes of the coffee crash, Costa Rican organic is born
Cuba's 5th International Conference on Organic Food Production.
Summer 2003 Transcontinental Farm Tour: Crossing Canada
When it comes to organized support for CSAs, Canadians have a thing or two to teach us, Eh?
The good life of a small-scale Ontario dairy farmer depends on being part of a dynamic coop
Hemp heaven and hell: A story in two parts
Three generations of cereal farmers in Saskatchewan grow organically on 3000 acres
Small-scale vertical integration at a roadside fruit stand farm in British Columbia
Washington Tilth Conference November 2003
Research Update Column in New Farm Magazine 2002-3
Lotter, D. Organic crops perform up to 100 percent better in drought and flood years.
Lotter, D. 2008. Organic viticulture, systemic acquired resistance, and wine quality. Organic Wine Journal. 11 Nov.
Column in Imperial Valley Press 2006, El Centro, California. The need for change in agricultural subsidies. (Column is on left hand side of page.)
Lotter, D. W. 2003. Organic Agriculture. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. 21(4):59–128. Abstract or Full text - Acrobat (pdf)
Lotter, D.W., J. Granett, A. Omer. 1999. Differences in grape phylloxera-caused root damage in organically and conventionally managed northern California vineyards. HortScience. 34 (6). 1108-1111. Full text.
Lotter, D.W. 1995. Soil quality assessment. Farmer to Farmer Magazine. Jan/Feb. issue. Full text
Lotter, D.W. 1994. EarthScore: Personal Environmental Audit and Guide. Morning Sun Press, Lafayette, CA.
Dong, A., D.W. Lotter. 1985. Comparison of weather station ET data. In: The California Irrigation Management Information System, Calif. Dept. Water. Res.
Lotter, D.W. 1983. The Potential for Stabilizing Annual Crop Production in Drought Susceptible Areas of East Africa by Associative Cropping with Trees. In Lockeretz, W.(ed.), Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Praeger.
