One in a series of oral history interviews created by AFSIC to capture the leaders in sustainable agriculture from the decades preceding the 1990s.
I. Garth Youngberg, Ph.D., was the founder and director of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture, producing one of the first journals that focused on the research in the field of alternative agriculture. His work in the field of agriculture has had a large affect on his contemporaries leading them to reexamine conventional agricultural practices and explore alternative approaches. In 1988, Dr. Youngberg received the MacArthur Fellowship Award for his work on sustainable agriculture.
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The 1980 Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming mentioned in this interview is available at http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/USDAOrgFarmRpt.pdf
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I. Garth Youngberg
