Garth Youngberg
Ivan Garth Youngberg was the founder and director of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture.[1][2]
He graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in Political Science in 1971.[3] He taught at Southwest Missouri State University, where he was chairman of the Political Science department until 1981.[4][5] He was a member of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Study Team for Organic Farming,[6] and Organic Resources Coordinator, for the USDA. [7][8] He lost his job during the Ronald Reagan administration transition.[9][10] He was a specialist with the Maryland Environmental Service.[11] He supported the Organic Farming Research Foundation.[12]
Awards
Works
- Alternative Farming Systems and Rural Communities: Exploring the Connections: Symposium Proceedings, Editors Garth Youngberg, Neill Schaller, Henry A. Wallace Center for Agriculture & Environmental Policy at Winrock International, 1992, ISBN 9781893182028
- "Sustainable Agriculture: An Overview", Sustainable agriculture in temperate zones, Editors Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Butler Flora, Larry D. King, Wiley-Interscience, 1990, ISBN 9780471622277
- "Policy Considerations for a Sustainable Agriculture", Sustainable Agriculture in California: Proceedings of a Research Symposium, Sacramento, California, March 15–16, 1990, Editor David Chaney, ANR Publications, 1991, ISBN 9781879906020
- Understanding the True Cost of Food: Considerations for a Sustainable Food System: Symposium Proceedings, Editors Garth Youngberg, Otto Doering, Henry A. Wallace Center for Agriculture & Environmental Policy at Winrock International, 1991, ISBN 9781893182141
- Biotechnology in Agriculture: Implications for Sustainability: Symposium Proceedings, Henry A. Wallace Center for Agriculture & Environmental Policy at Winrock International, 1986, ISBN 9781893182035
- "The Alternative Agricultural Movement", Policy Studies Journal, Volume 6 Issue 4, Pages 524 - 530
- Federal administration and participatory democracy: the ASCS farmer committee system, Volume 1971, Part 1, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1971
- John F. Kennedy's views on presidential power, Western Illinois University, 1966
References
- ^ "Organic Agriculture Pioneer Receives 'Genius' Award", Vegetarian Times, Oct 1988
- ^ "Garth Youngberg's Fertile Vision; The Natural-Farming Expert Reaps a Genius' Award'", The Washington Post, Ward Sinclair, Aug 1, 1988
- ^ http://www.las.illinois.edu/alumni/awards/achievement/
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=Y2weAAAAIAAJ&q=Garth+Youngberg&dq=Garth+Youngberg&cd=2
- ^ "News and Notes", Nack Young An, The Journal of Politics, Vol. 43, No. 2 (May, 1981), pp. 632-637
- ^ The Free Lance-Star Nov 12, 1979
- ^ http://www.westonaprice.org/A-History-of-Organic-Farming-Transitions-from-Sir-Albert-Howard-s-War-in-the-Soil-to-the-USDA-National-Organic-Program.html
- ^ http://www.ibiblio.org/farming-connection/news/aanews/0001.htm
- ^ "Alternative Agriculture' Harvesting New Support", The Morning Call, October 01, 1989, PETE LEFFLER
- ^ The grasslands of the United States: an environmental history, James Earl Sherow, ABC-CLIO, 2007, ISBN 9781851097203
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=9uSGAAAAIAAJ&q=Garth+Youngberg&dq=Garth+Youngberg&cd=1
- ^ https://ofrf.org/giving2ofrf/funders.html
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