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Wes Jackson on the Biggest Threat to America's Food Supply
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With America's topsoil gravely threatened, dwindling supplies of fossil fuels are going to present new challenges for working farmers who supply our food.
Post Carbon Institute Food & Agriculture Fellow Wes Jackson is one of the foremost figures in the international sustainable agriculture movement. Founder and president of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, he has pioneered reserach in Natural Systems Agriculture — including perennial grains, perennial polycultures, and intercropping — for over 30 years. He was a professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan and later established the Environmental Studies program at California State University, Sacramento, where he became a tenured full professor. He is the author of several books including Becoming Native to This Place (1994), Altars of Unhewn Stone (1987), and New Roots for Agriculture (1980).
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