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Garth Youngberg
NationalityAmerican
OccupationNon-fiction writer
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
Academic work
InstitutionsMissouri State University

Ivan Garth Youngberg was the founder and director of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture.

Life and work

He graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in Political Science in 1971. He taught at Southwest Missouri State University, where he was chairman of the Political Science department until 1981. He was a member of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Study Team for Organic Farming, and Organic Resources Coordinator, for the USDA. He lost his job during the Ronald Reagan administration transition. He was a specialist with the Maryland Environmental Service. He supported the Organic Farming Research Foundation.

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 978-1-893182-02-8
  • "Sustainable Agriculture: An Overview", Sustainable agriculture in temperate zones, Editors Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Butler Flora, Larry D. King, Wiley-Interscience, 1990, ISBN 978-0-471-62227-7
  • "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 978-1-879906-02-0
  • 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 978-1-893182-14-1
  • Biotechnology in Agriculture: Implications for Sustainability: Symposium Proceedings, Henry A. Wallace Center for Agriculture & Environmental Policy at Winrock International, 1986, ISBN 978-1-893182-03-5
  • "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

  1. "Organic Agriculture Pioneer Receives 'Genius' Award", Vegetarian Times, Oct 1988
  2. "Garth Youngberg's Fertile Vision; The Natural-Farming Expert Reaps a Genius' Award'", The Washington Post, Ward Sinclair, Aug 1, 1988
  3. Urbana-Champaign, ATLAS, LAS, University of Illinois at. "Award Recipients « Award Programs « Alumni Association « Alumni & Friends « College of LAS « Illinois". www.las.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Policy Studies Journal: The Journal of the Policy Studies Organization. University of Illinois. 1974-01-01.
  5. "News and Notes", Nack Young An, The Journal of Politics, Vol. 43, No. 2 (May, 1981), pp. 632-637
  6. The Free Lance-Star Nov 12, 1979
  7. "A History of Organic Farming: Transitions from Sir Albert Howard's War in the Soil to the USDA National Organic Program | Farm & Ranch". Archived from the original on 2010-02-09. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  8. "Alternative Agriculture News from the Wallace Institute -- August '99". www.ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
  9. "Alternative Agriculture' Harvesting New Support", The Morning Call, October 01, 1989, PETE LEFFLER
  10. The grasslands of the United States: an environmental history, James Earl Sherow, ABC-CLIO, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85109-720-3
  11. Brewster, David E.; Rasmussen, Wayne David; Youngberg, Garth (1983-01-01). Farms in Transition: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Farm Structure. Iowa State University Press. ISBN 9780813806365.
  12. "OFRF Funders". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-04-16.

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