President’s Letter 2020
Summer 2020 Dear Friends, We are launching a new fiscal year at a moment in history that will not soon be forgotten….
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Perennial Crops
Natural ecosystems feature perennial plants. So does our approach to regenerative agriculture.
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Ecological Intensification
Sunlight. Water. Soil. Microbes. Plants. People. The Land Institute brings them all together for sustainable farming.
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Ecosphere Studies
Changing the way we think about the world and our place in it, through educational and cultural projects.
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From the Board: Leadership Transition Announcement
Fred Iutzi has stepped down as president of The Land Institute, effective July 1, 2020. The board of The Land…
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Stan Cox: “It’s Not Just Meat: Covid-19 Puts All Food-System Workers in Peril”
Covid-19 outbreaks are now reaching far beyond the meatpacking industry. Migrant farmworkers in fruit orchards and vegetable fields, long the targets of…
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Save the Date! Perennial Ag Announcement
October 1, 2020 | 12:00 am
Upcoming fall 2020 virtual event will announce next steps to move The Land Institute's work in perennial agriculture forward.
Scientific Publications
Benefits of Native Mycorrhizal Amendments to Perennial Agroecosystems Increases with Field Inoculation Density
Perennial polyculture cropping systems are a novel agroecological approach used to mirror some of the ecological benefits provided by native perennial ecosystems including increased carbon and nitrogen storage, more stable…
Integrating multipurpose perennial grains crops in Western European farming systems
Western European agriculture is largely defined by the high level of productivity of its cereal grain production. Such productivity is largely a result of farm specialization and intensification. This approach…
Genome mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling domestication traits of intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium)
Abstract Allohexaploid (2n = 6x = 42) intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium), abbreviated IWG, is an outcrossing perennial grass belonging to the tertiary gene pool of wheat. Perenniality would be valuable option for grain production,…