Food, Farming and Health

August 2006

Leopold Center Distinguished Fellow Fred Kirschenmann

In this paper Kirschenmann outlines the need to connect human health and nutrition with the system that provides many of the foods for the U.S. population. It was published as part of the agricultural initiative of the Glynwood Center in Cold Spring, New York.

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