Research Results
Reports from past Leopold Center events


10-27-09 2009 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture, The Environmental Significance of Biodiversity, Shahid Naeem, Columbia University, Ames

10-20-09 The Future of American Agriculture, USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, Ames

09-24-09 Toward a Post Carbon Food System, Richard Heinberg, Author and Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, Ames

03-30-09 2009 Marketing and Food Systems Initiative Workshop, Ames


03-01-09 2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture: Why Don't We Have Sustainable Agriculture Now?, Richard Levins


12-10-08 Learning from the Floods of 2008: Practical Strategies for Resilience, Workshop hosted by the Leopold Center and the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at the University of Northern Iowa, Ames

11-10-08
11-11-08

Sustaining Iowa: Making the Connection between Food, Health and the Land, Presentations in Iowa City, Cedar Falls and Ames

10-16-08

Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications and Strategies for Iowa, Ames

9-11-08

2008 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture, Robert Costanza, "Ecological Economics: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future," Ames

03-11-08

Third Leopold Center Marketing and Food Systems Initiative Workshop, Ames

02-24-08

2008 Shivvers Memorial Lecture: Family Farms in an Era of Global Uncertainty, John Ikerd

02-20-08

The Low Carbon Diet: Reducing Energy Intensity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Food System Using Life Cycle Assessment Approach, Overheads from presentation by Sonja Brodt, University of California, Davis, at Iowa State University, Ames [PDF]

01-11-08

Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture presentation at the 2008 Practical Farmers of Iowa annual conference, Des Moines

10-22-07

The Agriculture-Public Health Connection, Keeney Distinguished Lecture by Robert Lawrence, M.D., Ames

07-11-07

Leopold Center Twentieth Anniversary Conference, Ames

04-15-07

A Conversation with Wendell Berry, 2007 Shivvers Lecture, Ames

02-28-07

Climate Change & Agriculture: Learning Lessons and Proposing Solutions, Cynthia Rosenzweig, 2007 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture [PDF] Listen to podcast  More about the colloquium

11-06-06

2006 Leopold Center Marketing and Food Systems Initiative Workshop, Ames

08-29-06 to
08-31-06

Local Produce = Local Profits, Leopold Center display at the 2006 Farm Progress Show, Amana, Iowa

06-01-06

Investing for Triple Bottom Line Returns, John Berdes and Dennis West

01-13-06

Tune-up for Grass-based Beef Production and Marketing, Allen Williams, Des Moines

12-08-05

2005 Leopold Center Marketing and Food Systems Initiative Workshop, Ames

11-29-05

Is Humanity Sustainable? William Rees seminar, Ames

10-19-05

2005 Shivvers Memorial Lecture: The Farm as Natural Habitat, Laura Jackson

03-09-05 to
03-10-05

Energy and Sustainable Agriculture, L. Hunter Lovins, 2005 John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture

11-17-04

Growing Home: Community development strategies for sustaining local agriculture

11-12-04 to
11-14-04

Proceedings from New Perspectives on Food Security, Warrenton, Virginia [PDF]

10-28-04

Surviving globalization by producing differently: Charlevoix's lamb label

12-01-03

GM Food/Feed: Gaps in risk-associated research that need to be filled [Arpad Pusztai]

11-12-03

Changing the way we do business? [Sissel Waage, The Natural Step]

10-20-03

Re-Thinking Agri-Culture: As if the Real World Matters [Jules Pretty]

10-06-03

Farm Ownership: The Changing of the Guard roundtable discussion

09-06-03 to
09-08-03

Proceedings from Summit on Seeds and Breeds for 21st Century Agriculture, Washington, D.C. [PDF, note file is 4.26 MB]

03-31-03

Local Flavor and Taste of Place [Arlin Wasserman]

02-04-03

Concentration in Agriculture conference

10-21-02

Leopold Center Celebration Dinner

01-18-02

Creating Value Chains for Niche Poultry Markets