Redeploying Agricultural Intellectual Capital

The challenges facing the food industry provide an important chapter in the story about the end of the industrial era.

In past posts, I have talked about how the large industrial model has lead to dangerous monocultures in bananas and unsustainable concentration of salad green production in the Salinas Valley. There is a growing realization that we need to think about sustainability in agriculture. This is a significant challenge–but also an enormous opportunity. Read more