Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas will speak on “The Necessity and Possibility of the Ecosystem as the Conceptual Tool for a New Agriculture” at the Department of Horticulture Seminar, Monday October 4 at 4 p.m. in Room 404 Plant Science Building.
Jackson is the author of numerous books and publications, including the just published Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture. He is a recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award (1990), a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), Right Livelihood Award (Stockholm), known as “Alternative Nobel Prize” (2000), and the Louis Bromfield Award (2010). He has received four honorary doctorates and in 2007 received the University of Kansas Distinguished Service Award. Much of his work at The Land Institute has been focused on developing perennial grain polycultures.
If you would like to meet informally with Jackson during the day on October 4, contact Sam Bosco for scheduling information: sfb42@cornell.edu