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Wes Jackson
August 15, 2008
Wes Jackson is founder and president
of The Land Institute, a nonprofit educational and research organization
based in Salina, Kansas which focuses its efforts on developing
a "natural systems" agriculture.
Mr. Jackson is the author of
several books including New Roots for Agriculture (with a foreword
by Wendell Berry) 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").
In 2005 he was honored by Smithsonian magazine as one of the
"35 Who Made A Difference."
Mr. Jackson earned a degree
in biology from Kansas Wesleyan, an MA in botany from University
of Kansas, and a Ph.D. 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. |
