[SEMCO] Woods Hole Research Center Seminar - Sept. 20

[Allison B. White]

For immediate release:

Contact:
Allison White
508.548.9375 x150
abwhite at whrc.org



On Monday, September 20th at 4 p.m., renowned agriculturalist and geneticist
Dr. Wes Jackson will speak at the Woods Hole Research Center. Part of the
Center’s continuing seminar series, the lecture is entitled “Agriculture’s
Ten Thousand Year Old Challenge” and will be held in the Harbourton
Auditorium of the Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road. The
seminar is free and open to the public; however, seating is limited and
reservations are required. Please call 508-540-9900 for reservations.

Dr. Jackson is co-founder and president of the Land Institute of Salina,
Kansas, and is known for his development of Natural Systems Agriculture, an
ecologically responsible paradigm for food production using an ecological
approach as to how the world has worked and evolved over millions of years.

In the view of Dr. George M. Woodwell, director of the Woods Hole Research
Center, “the continuity of the human habitat is being severely challenged by
industrial agriculture and other broad and destructive influences.” He
believes that agriculture will be saved by “diversity, by innovations in
crop development and management” and cites Dr. Jackson’s vigorous career and
leadership in the international movement for a more nearly sustainable
agriculture.

Dr. Jackson is the author of several books, including New Roots for
Agriculture. He was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar and was named a
MacArthur Fellow in 1992.


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