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Shared Visions, Two Paths |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE PRAIRIE? |
| Author: John Haberern |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,826 Words, 11,687 Characters |
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While the world awaits Wes Jackson's perennial polycultures, soil continues to erode. Agricultural chemicals poison farmers and farmworkers, and contaminate food and groundwater. Worldwide, farmers find it increasingly difficult to make a living off the land, and flock to cities.
Bob Rodale didn't think the world could afford to wait for solutions to these problems. Until his untimely death in 1990, he worked tirelessly to show that these trends can be reversed using crops and farming practices already in hand.
Like Jackson, Rodale was an outspoken critic of conventional agriculture. His father, J.I. Rodale, began questioning the industrialization of farming in the 1940s, at the very dawn of the chemical-farming era. Bob carried the torch through the 1970s and 1980s as presiden...
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...t farmers and nonscientists should be full partners in the research process, and researchers should be rewarded based on their service to farmers. He even proposed a system of "extension in reverse," where farmers would help educate the researchers about the realities of farming. In the search for sustainable farming practices, it is clear that Rodale believed that farmers are the heroes. vbcrlf
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