Issues

Agriculture is eroding much more than soil. It is accelerating climate change and fouling waterways. It is the single human activity most responsible for dismantling the biodiversity that makes life as we know it possible. MORE

Solutions

Have you ever wondered why prairies thrive without any human intervention? No pesticides, no fertilizer, no irrigation, and yet they come back year after year, come drought or flood. The soil remains healthy, full of nutrients and swarming with organisms. MORE

Science

There’s a good reason the world's grain comes from annual plants, grown in monocultures, boosted by chemical and energy inputs that cause widespread damage: there are no good alternatives. Yet. MORE

NEWS FROM THE LAND

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Fall and Winter Internships

The Land Institute is accepting applications for fall and winter paid internships to work on harvest and post harvest breeding and agroecology projects. Please contact Tim Crews at crews@landinstitute.org. 

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Prairie Festival 2016

The 40th anniversary of The Land Institute will be celebrated this year at our 38th Prairie Festival. It will be a different form of celebration. We hope you will join the party.

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Wes Jackson speaking in New Haven, CT

2016 Yale Food Systems Symposium Kroon Hall, Yale School of Forestry and Evironmental Studies, 195 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 Friday, September 30, 2016 Online registration available here...

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