John E. Ikerd

 Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics 
University of Missouri Columbia 

College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 

5121 S. Brock Rodgers Road 
Columbia, MO 65201 
Phone: 573-874-0408    Fax: 573-874-0408 
E-mail:  JEIkerd@centurytel.net

     Vita     Background     Publications 1989-99

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RECENT PAPERS ON-LINE

NEW ONLINE January 2009

The Sustaining People through Agriculture Series
New Farm Economics Series
Small Farms Series
The New American Farm Series

Sustainable Agriculture Series

The Ecology of Sustainability Series
The Future of Food and Farming in America Series
Sustainable Community Development Series
The Economic of Sustainability Series
Sustainability & Confinement Animal Feeding Series
Selected Links: (Video, Audio, Text)

Ecological Capitalism (video)

Real Cost of Food (video)

Small Farms are Real Farms (audio)

Economic Sustainability (audio)

Sustainable Foods: Importance of Home Cooking (text)

The Farm Economy: State of the Union (text)

Managing Sustainable Organizations (text)

Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Ethics and Morality (text)

Books by John Ikerd 

        

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       Small Farms Are Real Farms

  

       Farming Philosophy 
Return to Common Sense

       

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Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense

Available from Kumarian Press Inc.

 

* Why is today’s capitalist economy unsustainable?

* What are the essentials of a sustainable economy?

* How can we manage sustainable organizations?

* What are the three economies of sustainability?

* How can we manage a sustainable economy?

 

 

 

 

 

Small Farms are Real Farms:

Sustaining People Through Agriculture

Available from Acres USA, Inc.

 

* Why is America experiencing a small farm revolution?

* Why is it important to sustain people, not just agriculture?

* How can small farms be managed for sustainability?

* What are the economic keys to small farm sustainability

* Why does America need small farms for food security?

 

 

 

 Return to Common Sense

Available from R. T. Edwards Publishers

 

* How did America become an unsustainable society?

* What is the new vision of societal sustainability?

* What does common sense have to do with sustainability?

* Why do we need revolution rather than evolution?

* How can we achieve the victory of sustainability?

 

 

 

 

 

Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture

Available from University of Nebraska Press

 

* How is crisis and agriculture related to sustainability?

* What is driving the sustainable agriculture movement?

* What are the key principles of sustainable farming?

* What’s different about the new American farmers?

* How can we create a new sustainable food system?



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