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The Land Institute

Also known as: Land Institute

A nonprofit research institute pursuing the breeding of perennial grain crops — Kernza intermediate wheatgrass (released commercially 2019), perennial sorghum, perennial sunflower, perennial legumes — as a multi-decade alternative to annual-tillage agriculture. Wes Jackson's framing: "the problem of agriculture is agriculture itself," and the only durable answer is plants that don't need to be replanted. The institutional center of the perennial-grains movement.

Why this listing

Substrate-building at the species level — breeding the plants the next-millennium agriculture will need. The Land Institute’s work is too long-cycle to fit any quarter’s metrics, which is exactly why it’s the kind of operation a directory like this should hold visible. Listed as knowledge-care infrastructure with civilizational time horizons.

See also

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Sources

  • The Land Institute published research and Kernza release documentation
  • Wes Jackson, New Roots for Agriculture (1980); Nature’s Matrix (with collaborators)
  • Robert Rodale and Wes Jackson historical correspondence

Rooted in life.

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Scientific

shares approach with

  • The Berry Center two institutional forms of long-arc American agrarian thought — Wes Jackson's at The Land Institute on the science/breeding side, Wendell Berry's at the Berry Center on the cultural/economic side

founded

  • Wes Jackson founded 1976 in Salina, Kansas; the perennial-grain breeding research program now in its fifth decade

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