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by Wes Jackson

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Wes Jackson

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Counterpoint (October 4, 2011)

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Wes Jackson is the founder of the Land Institute in Kansas, which has the current goal of establishing a new Natural Systems Agriculture. A famous advocate for sustainable practices, organic agriculture, and environmental scientific understanding, Jackson lectures nationwide

Wes Jackson is the founder of The Land Institute in Kansas, which has the current goal of establishing a new Natural Systems Agriculture. A famous advocate for sustainable practices, organic agriculture, and environmental scientific understanding, Jackson lectures worldwide

Consulting The Genius is more or less Jackson's manifesto about our need for change in our food system. His jointly proposed visionary 50 year farm bill, submitted to Congress in 2009, is also included in the book. Great insights, but a little wordy, dry, and disjointed at times.

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Jackson has sounded a rallying call for farmers to embrace a more sustainable way of producing our food.

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Founder Wes Jackson lays out the urgent necessity of this task in his latest book, Consulting the Genius of the .

Founder Wes Jackson lays out the urgent necessity of this task in his latest book, Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture, published in October 2010.

Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for .

Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, has been a leading voice of the agrarian movement .

Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, has been a leading voice of the agrarian movement over the last four decades. The themes of place, biodiversity and the virtues of perennial plants that have figured in his previous books converge in Jackson’s thorough argument for a new approach to agriculture that is dictated not by market economies or agribusiness but rather by the land and ecology of a given place. Jackson pleads for us to look to natural ecosystems - or nature in general - as the measure against which we judge our agricultural practices.

Wes Jackson: Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-8 DOI 1. 3 Authors Douglas Seale, Marlborough, MA, USA Journal Journal of Agricultural and Environm. 3 Authors Douglas Seale, Marlborough, MA, USA Journal Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Online ISSN 1573-322X Print ISSN 1187-7863.

Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, if one prefers, nature in general—as the measure against which we judge all of our agricultural practices.Jackson believes the time is right to do away with annual monoculture grains, which are vulnerable to national security threats and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs. Soil erosion and the poisons polluting our water and air—all associated with agriculture from its beginnings—foretell a population with its natural fertility greatly destroyed.In this eloquent and timely volume, Jackson argues we must look to nature itself to lead us out of the mess we’ve made. The natural ecosystems will tell us, if we listen, what should happen to the future of food.

Dddasuk

Wes Jackson is a leader in describing what has happened to our soil, our agriculture and our food system-- his discussion perennial grain varieties and how that is a hope for our planet is one to be read by all

Usic

Wes Jackson's research on food production suitable to the water scarce great plains of (Kansas) the "bread basket" of the USA that would not destroy the soil nor deplete the fossil water aquifer necessary to human life there is what earned him a MacArthur "genius grant" and an Atlantic Magazine cover story more than just a few years ago. This book gave me a glimpse of his philosophy and his soul; well worth my time and money.

Goldcrusher

Great book.

Braswyn

This is a profound, powerful book. The lengthy section on developing perennial grains will not be to everyone's taste, but that's just one section. A must read for anyone thinking about humanity's place in nature.

Bloodhammer

This is an easy/enjoyable read, it is not dry or boring. However, Jackson discusses in depth one possible solution to the agricultural problems he presents. I needed more complete and specific suggestions for solutions to today's issues in agriculture.

Love Me

I've read many of these essays or heard them delivered, in other contexts, but applaud again and reaffirm how important I believe Wes Jackson is to our chance as a species to make adjustments that will improve our performance as an ecologically benign and perhaps even helpful character in the over all experience of the places on earth where we dwell. Various sections are also filled with sweet biographical material and loving references to his mentors and friends. He's also providing a significant history of the thinking and individuals who lay the groundwork for the Cartesian / Industrial world-frame, agriculture and ultimately agribusiness. as well as those great :thinkers who have re-recognized the essential importance of soil and worked to reverse the industrial view.
p. 244: "A primary purpose of this book has been to argue for the necessity and now the possibility of making the perrenial grains available for agronomists and ecologist to bring the process of the wild to the farm." p. 249: " By starting where our split with nature began, we can build an agriculture more like the ecosystems that shaped us, thereby preserving ecological capital, the stuff of which we are made, and guaranteeing ourselves food for the journey ahead." Like all of Wes Jackson's books, this is one to be read, treasured, and incorporated into how we see the world and act.

luisRED

Outstanding book. As a culture we have so much to learn about how we have destroyed our precious resource (soil). But Wes Jackson does offer some solutions. A long road, yes, and perhaps possible if we can do away with industrial farming practices. And of course proper caring leadership in the right places. True for most everything wouldn't you say?

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