John Ikerd

Disruptions like the cyberattack highlight the problems with an industrialized food system and the need for policies that support local food systems.

Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics of the University of Missouri at Columbia John Ikerd argues that humans cannot wait much longer to address the reality that economic growth is unsustainable—because the world is running out of energy resources. “We simply can’t continue to grow at the rate we’ve been growing in the past.”