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PART OF THE CLIMATE JUSTICE WEBINAR SERIES
J oin us for a conversation between Wes Jackson\, one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement\, author Robert Jensen\, as well as UBC pr ofessors Ramana and Hannah Wittman. In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute\, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the found ers of the sustainable agriculture movement for his work on perennial grain s and Natural Systems Agriculture. Learn about Jackson’s ideas to advance s ustainable agriculture and the other dramatic changes necessary if we are t o effectively address climate change and other ecological crises and create a sustainable and just society for all to thrive.
Learn more about t he book\, T he Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sust ainability.
Moderator: Paige Inglis\, Stude nt\, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Speakers:
Speakers’ Bios :
Wes Jackson\, founder and president emeritus of The Land Institute\, earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Kansas Wesl eyan University\, Salina\; a master’s degree in botany from the University of Kansas\, and a doctorate in genetics from North Carolina State Universit y. He established and served as chair of one of the country’s first environ mental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento and then returned to his native Kansas to found The Land Institute in 1976. He is th e author of several books\, including New Roots for Agriculture\, Becoming Native to This Place\, Consulting the Genius of the P lace\, and most recently Nature as Measure. Wes is widely rec ognized as a leader in the international movement for a more sustainable ag riculture. He was a Pew Conservation Scholar in 1990\, a MacArthur Fellow i n 1992\, and received the Right Livelihood Award in 2000. Life magazine inc luded him as one of 18 individuals predicted to be among the 100 important Americans of the 20th century. Smithsonian in 2005 included him as one of “ 35 Who Made a Difference.”
Jensen can be reached at rjensen@austin.utexas.edu and his articles can be found online. To join an email list to recei ve articles by Jensen\, visit this website. Twitter: @jensenrobertw.
M. V. Ramana is Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament\, Global and Human Secu rity at the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He is also Dire ctor of the Liu Institute for Global Issues\, Acting Director (2020-2021) o f the Centre for India and South Asia Research in the Institute of Asian Re search\, and a Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Hi s research interests are in the broad areas of international security and e nergy supply\, with a particular focus on topics related to nuclear energy and fissile materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
Hannah Wittman is a Professor in the Institute of Resources\, Environment and Sust ainability\, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of Brit ish Columbia. She conducts community-based and participatory action researc h related to food sovereignty\, agrarian reform\, agroecology\, and health equity in Canada and Latin America. She is also co-Specialty Chief editor o f the Social Movements\, Institutions and Governance section of Frontie rs in Sustainable Food Systems. Her edited books include Environme nt and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures\, Subjects and Struggles\; Foo d Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food\, Nature and Community\, and Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems.
Moderator's Bio: Paige Inglis is a student in UBC's Master of Public Policy and Globa l Affairs. Throughout her studies and thereafter\, her focus has always bee n on environmental aspects of food security and regenerative agriculture. T his has involved mostly non-profit work\, such as helping new farmers in Ot tawa access resources\, reduce barriers to entry\, and teaching elementary students in Richmond\, BC about the food system and how to grow their own f ood. Paige also has her Permaculture Design Certificate\, and has linked it to academic research through field research in Taiwan on Indigenous Ecolog ical Knowledge. No stranger to getting dirty in the field\, she has worked on several organic farms and homesteads in Europe\, Canada\, and Central Am erica. In her career thus far\, Paige enjoyed most working with local gover nment partners in advocacy work and there she turned her interest to the po wer of policy. She hopes to use her policy skills to innovate sustainable f ood systems locally and globally.
Presented in partner ship with: The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm\; Institute for Resources\, Environment and Sustainability\; Department of Earth\, Ocean an d Atmospheric Sciences\; and UBC Sustainability
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