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Laura Jackson

Laura L. Jackson is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

The Farm as Natural Habitat

Reconnecting Food Systems With Ecosystems

The Farm as Natural Habitat is a vital new contribution to the debate about agriculture and its impacts on the land. Arising from the conviction that the agricultural landscape as a whole could be restored to a healthy diversity, the book challenges the notion that the dominant agricultural landscape -- bereft of its original vegetation and wildlife and despoiled by chemical runoff -- is inevitable if we are to feed ourselves.