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Landlabs: An Integrated Approach to Creating Agricultural Enterprises That Meet the Triple Botom Line
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
  • Nicholas Jordan, University of Minnesota
  • Lisa A. Schulte, Iowa State University
  • Carol Williams, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • David Mulla, University of Minnesota
  • David Pitt, University of Minnesota
  • Carissa Shively Slotterback, University of Minnesota
  • Randall Jackson, University of Wisconsin–Madisonn
  • Douglas Landis, Michigan State University
  • Bruce Dale, Michigan State University
  • Dennis Becker, University of Minnesota
  • Mark Rickenbach, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Matt Helmers, Iowa State University
  • V. Bobby Bringi, Michigan Biotechnology Institute
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Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
12-1-2013
Abstract

Global demand is increasing for food, feed, and fiber; for additional agricultural outputs, such as biofuels; and for ecosystem services, such as clean water and outdoor recreation. In response, new agricultural enterprises are needed that produce more outputs from existing lands while meeting the "triple bottom line" of high performance in economic, environmental, and social terms. Establishing such enterprises requires coordination and development within three critical domains: landscape configurations (i.e., types and arrangements of land uses), supply/value chains (i.e., processing and utilization), and policy and governance. In this essay, we describe our efforts, as land-grant university scientists, to support coordinated innovation and enterprise development in integrated place-based institutions, which we term landlabs. We describe our experiences in three prototyping efforts and outline key features of landlabs that are emerging from these efforts. Land-grant universities have a central and crucial role to play in organizing and operating landlabs.

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This article is from Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 17 (2013): 175. Posted with permission.

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University of Georgia
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Citation Information
Nicholas Jordan, Lisa A. Schulte, Carol Williams, David Mulla, et al.. "Landlabs: An Integrated Approach to Creating Agricultural Enterprises That Meet the Triple Botom Line" Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement Vol. 17 Iss. 4 (2013) p. 175 - 200
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew_helmers/153/