Wes Jackson

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

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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 recognized as a leader in the international sustainable agriculture movement. 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").

Related Topics:
Land Institute - Sustainable agriculture - MacArthur Fellow - Right Livelihood Award

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