Wes Jackson

Wes Jackson is the founder and current president of the Land Institute.

After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan, an MA in botany from University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University, he established and served as chair of one of the country's first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento and then returned to his native Kansas to found the Land Institute in 1976. He is the author of several books including New Roots for Agriculture and Becoming Native to This Place and is widely recognized as a leader in the international movement for a more sustainable agriculture. He was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar, in 1992 became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2000 received the Right Livelihood Award (called the "alternative Nobel prize").

Quotes

• "If we don't get sustainability in agriculture first, sustainability will not happen."
• "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."

External links

• The Land Institute (http://www.landinstitute.org)
• Wes Jackson (http://www.umich.edu/~envsem/events/jackson.html)
• Robert Jensen: An Interview with Wes Jackson (http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen07102003.html)

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