A peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
Over the past century, US agriculture has been rapidly replacing knowledgeable people with non-renewable resources and eroding rural economies in the process. We suggest how US policy could pivot to enable and support the ecologically skilled workforce needed to achieve food security in the face of climate change.
Citation
Carlisle, Liz, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Marcia S. DeLonge, Alastair Iles, Adam Calo, Christy Getz, Joanna Ory, Katherine Munden-Dixon, Ryan Galt, Brett Melone, Reggie Knox, and Daniel Press. 2019. "Transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture Requires Growing and Sustaining an Ecologically Skilled Workforce." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00096