Author John Ikerd to speak March 19, 2008

I am delighted to announce Dr. John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri in Columbia, has accepted a speaking engagement with our group for the evening of March 19, 2008. He will speak on the topic of sustainability and its relevance to faith and social justice.

John was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time and spent thirty years in various professorial positions at North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Georgia, and University of Missouri before retiring in early 2000. Since retiring, he spends most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability with an emphasis on economics and agriculture. Ikerd is author of Sustainable Capitalism, A Return to Common Sense, Small Farms are Real Farms, and Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture.

More complete background information and selected writings are available at http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/

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