Archives: Land Report Articles
Economics and Self-Sufficiency
On March 13, 1997, the regional newspaper of north central Kansas, the Salina Journal, published…
Read MoreThe Need of Being Versed in Country Things
The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now…
Read MoreThe Emperor’s New Chromosomes
The widespread adoption of transgenic plants now under way promises to accelerate the degradation of…
Read MoreThe Changing Relationship Between The Tree of Knowledge and The Tree of Life
Over the last ten millennia or so the nature of the human condition has changed…
Read MoreFood in the Coming Century | Right Livelihood Awards 2000
Acceptance Speech Delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 2000. Honor goes to all of those…
Read MoreClear-Cutting the Last Wilderness Compromising the Genomes of our Major Crops
In April of 1997, The Economist carried a story entitled “The Green Gene Giant,” featuring Monsanto and…
Read MoreA Medieval Art and Photo Essay
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Harvesters (1565, 461/2″ x 631/4″, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) probably…
Read MoreToward An Ignorance-Based World View
At The Land Institute several of us get a great deal of joy from looking…
Read MoreHope is a Thing With Roots
In 1987, farmers of the High Plains boiled at Easterners Deborah and Frank Popper, who…
Read MoreFirst International Perennial Grain Breeding Workshop
In a major expansion of The Land Institute’s vision of soil-conserving, grain-producing agriculture, in September…
Read MoreParadigm Shift U.
Imagine that you are watching a university news conference. Perhaps it is in your hometown….
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