Kirschenmann Lecture: Ricardo Salvador

The 2017 Kirschenmann Lecture was delivered by Ricardo Salvador on June 1, 2017.

Ricardo Salvador is the senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit science advocacy organization. He is internationally recognized and respected for his dedication to advocating and working for a food system that is healthier and more just. Prior to joining UCS, Salvador was a program officer for food, health and wellbeing at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. His background in agriculture and food systems is both broad and deep; he has worked as an associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, where he collaborated with students to help establish a student-run organic farm, and with other faculty members to develop the first sustainable agriculture graduate program in the U.S., which he chaired; and he also worked as an extension agent with Texas A&M University. Dr. Salvador earned his undergraduate degree in agricultural science from New Mexico State University. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in crop production and physiology from Iowa State University.

The Kirschenmann Lecture was launched in 2015 in honor of organic farming pioneer and agroecological leader Fred Kirschenmann, Stone Barns Center’s Board president. The annual lecture is designed to explore many of the topics that Fred is most passionate about, including resource depletion, the principle of shared value, the land ethic and fostering resilient agriculture.

Watch Ricardo’s talk, entitled “Gambling Humanity’s Future: War, Cheating and Agriculture”:

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