Fred Iutzi, who grew up on an Illinois farm, is President of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. Before coming to Kansas, he managed agriculture, energy, and cooperative development programs for the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University.
Growing a Green New Deal: Agriculture’s Role in Economic Justice and Ecological Sustainability
We focus here on two proposals for a Green New Deal that are politically viable today but also point us toward the deeper long-term change needed: (1) job training that could help repopulate the countryside and change how farmers work, and (2) research on perennial grain crops that could change how we farm.
February 13, 2019