Wes Jackson was born on 1936 and co-founded the Land Institute with Dana Jackson.
12 Facts About Wes Jackson
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Wes Jackson is a member of the World Future Council.
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Wes Jackson then chose to leave academia, returning to his native Kansas, where he founded a non-profit organization, The Land Institute, in 1976.
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Wes Jackson stepped down from the presidency of The Land Institute in 2016, but still works in the Ecosphere Studies program.
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In 1978, Wes Jackson proposed the development of a perennial polyculture.
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Wes Jackson sought to have fields planted in polycultures, more than one variety of plant in a field, like diverse plants grow together in nature.
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Wes Jackson 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.
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Wes Jackson argues that this version of agriculture used "nature as model," and to pursue that end, The Land Institute has studied prairie ecology.
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Wes Jackson is the author of several books and is recognized as a leader in the international sustainable agriculture movement.
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Wes Jackson collaborated with author Wendell Berry on "Meeting the Expectations of the Land," in response to a Council on Agricultural Science and Technology report on agrochemicals.
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Wes Jackson's Becoming Native to This Place, published in 1994, challenges readers to develop a relationship with their ecosystems and further develops the idea of Natural Systems Agriculture.
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Wes Jackson was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar and in 1992 became a MacArthur Fellow.