Why Don't We Have Sustainable Agriculture Now?
Richard Levins
Sunday, 01 Mar 2009 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Richard Levins, professor emeritus of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, will discuss the roles research, policy, and market power must play if we are to move forward. His book Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm, a story of farm policy and family farming in the twentieth century, won the American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Communication Award. He is also the author of Market Power for Farmers: What It Is, How to Get It, How to Use It. Levins writes regularly for trade publications, including Hoard's Dairyman and Successful Farming and has been a guest on CNN's In the Money program. Before joining the University of Minnesota in 1988, he served on the faculty of the University of Maryland and the University of Florida. The 2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture.Cosponsored By:
- Gamma Sigma Delta Honorary Society for Ag
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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