It's not "perfect" - I still get frustrated at times with the paradigm
which I perceive as informing arguments for "economic efficiency" at the
cost of things which aren't valued in markets, like preserving local land
in agriculture - but I'm young yet, and idealistic; I haven't been
bludgeoned into cooperation by the weight of economic theory.
I can't speak to our Plant and Soil Sciences department, although it does
provide a concentration (within the undergraduate degree) in Sustainable
Agriculture.
So perhaps UMass is one bright light in the sust-ag-higher-ed picture.
It's my perception - studying here, reading sanet, and finding articles on
organics in journals more and more frequently - that sust-ag is spreading
quickly in the academic world. Perhaps if I weren't at UMass, I'd have a
very different perception.
Rob
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T. Robert Fetter trf@student.umass.edu
Research Assistant "We are each poets and painters,
Ag. & Resource Economics bricklayers and revolutionaries.
U. of Mass - Amherst But we are all mapmakers..."
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