What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Mary Hendrickson Mary Hendrickson is a rural sociologist who has demonstrated "Communities of Practice" in agricultural regions in the American midwest and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Mary has pioneered this non-hierarchical approach to gathering agricultural stakeholders that builds new agribusiness partnerships. And teaching sustainable agriculture to many University of Missouri students from conventional farming families, she addresses solutions to challenges of food production in a changing climate similarly, in non-polarizing ways. She describes how small and large corn and soybean farmers can reduce weather-related revenue losses AND mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. And she recounts market and local economy-building opportunities for commodity producers in consumers' interest in eating more GM-free food - for instance, sorghum, a GM-free grain, as livestock feed.