Wes Jackson
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Wes Jackson (born 1936) co-founded the
Early life and education
Jackson was born and raised on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan University, an MA in botany from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University, Wes Jackson established and served as chair of one of the United States' first environmental studies programs at California State University, Sacramento.
Jackson then chose to leave academia, returning to his native
Work with The Land Institute
The Land Institute has explored alternatives in
Jackson also wanted to use perennials, which would not need to be replanted every year - reducing the need for frequent tillage, preventing erosion, and promoting plant-soil microbe relationships to establish and persist.[2][3] The Land Institute attempts to breed plants not presently used in agriculture into effective producers of perennial grains in intercropping conditions. Jackson argues that this version of agriculture used "nature as model," and to pursue that end, The Land Institute has studied prairie ecology.
Current and future work
Now in its fourth decade, The Land Institute is beginning to demonstrate progress in developing the perennial crops called for in the Natural Systems Agriculture model. Programs in
Research on integrating these new plants into polycultures also continues. The Land Institute is not itself developing machinery suitable for one-pass harvesting of grain polycultures. It instead takes the position that integration of existing materials separation technology into harvesters is a straightforward task, and will be accomplished by public and private agricultural engineers when the demand arrives.
Author
Wes Jackson is the author of several books and is recognized as a leader in the international
This book expanded on ideas presented in a 1978 article, "Towards a Sustainable Agriculture,"
Jackson's Becoming Native to This Place, published in 1994, challenges readers to develop a relationship with their
Works
Selected Bibliography
Primary Author:
- Man and the Environment (1971) ISBN 978-0-69704-704-5
- New Roots for Agriculture (1980) ISBN 978-0-80327-562-1
- Altars of Unhewn Stone: Science and the Earth (1987) ISBN 978-1-59098-287-7
- Becoming Native to This Place (1994) ISBN 978-1-887178-11-2
- Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson (2011) ISBN 978-1-58243-700-2
- Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (2011) ISBN 978-1-58243-780-4
Contributor:
- Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship (1984), Editor
- Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agriculture (1986), Introduction by
- From the Land: Articles Compiled from the Land 1941-1954 (1988), Introduction by
- Farming in Nature's Image: An Ecological Approach to Agriculture (1991), Foreword by
- Life on the Dry Line: Working the Land, 1902-1944 (1992), Foreword by
- From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World (1993), Foreword by
- The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability (1996), Foreword by
- Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle (1999), Foreword by
- Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (1999), Foreword by
- Wendell Berry: Life and Work (2007), Essay
- The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (2008), Editor
- American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture and the Land (2011), Foreword by
Quotes
- "If we don't get sustainability in agriculture first, sustainability will not happen."[12]
- "By beginning to make agriculture sustainable we will have taken the first step forward for humanity to begin to measure progress by its independence from the extractive economy."[13]
- "Ecosystem agriculturalists will take advantage of huge chunks of what works. They will be taking advantage of the natural integrities of ecosystems worked out over the millennia."[14]
- "If you are working on something you can finish in your lifetime, you’re not thinking big enough."[15]
See also
References
- ^ Wes Jackson, Staff of The Land Institute
- ISBN 9780913890387.
- ISBN 9781582438931.
- ^ National Agricultural Library. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
- ^ Jackson, Wes (1971). "Man and the Environment." Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Company. Preface, xvii.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office(1977). "Protect Tomorrow's Food Supply, Soil Conservation Needs Priority Attention". CED-77-30. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
- ^ [3] Jackson, Wes (2002). "Systems Agriculture: A radical alternative". Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 88: 111-117. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
- ^ Jackson, Wes, Wendell Berry, and Bruce Colman, Eds. (1984). "Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship." San Francisco, CA: North Point Press.
- ^ The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "Meet the 1992 MacArthur Fellows". Retrieved 2013-07-01.
- ^ "Wes Jackson / The Land Institute". The Right Livelihood Award. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ Jason Peters (ed) Wendell Berry: Life and Work, page 180
- ^ Jackson, Wes (December 8, 2000). "Food in the Coming Century Right Livelihood Awards 2000 (LR69)". The Land Institute. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
- ^ "Acceptance Speech by Wes Jackson December 8th, 2000". The Right Livelihood Awards 2000. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-8032-7562-1.
- ^ "A Modern Farmer Conversation: The Wisdom of Wes Jackson, Founder of The Land Institute"". Modern Farmer. 3 March 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2023.
External links
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- The Land Institute
- World Future Council
- 35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson
- Wes Jackson
- Right Livelihood Award recipient Wes Jackson
- Smithsonian magazine profile of Jackson
- Kansas State Historical Society's entry on Land Institute archives, including a history
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