[Scpg] Agroecology Expert to Speak April 23 at Cal Poly

[Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Agroecology Expert to Speak April 23 at Cal Poly

SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly will host agroecology 
expert Steve Gliessman from 11 a.m. to noon 
Monday, April 23. in Chumash Auditorium in the University Union.

A professor or agroecology at UC Santa Cruz for 
more than 30 years, Gliessman will share his 
experiences in the advancement of sustainable 
food systems locally and globally and with the 
Community Agroecology Network, the nonprofit he co-founded.

The free lecture is open to the public. It is 
sponsored by Community Agroecology Network, the 
College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental 
Sciences’ Center for Sustainability and the Cal Poly Fair Trade Club.

About Steve Gliessman

Steve Gliessman earned his doctorate in plant 
ecology at UC Santa Barbara and then spent nine 
years teaching and managing agricultural 
operations in Latin America. He joined the 
faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 1980. He was founding 
director of the university’s Agroecology Program 
and teaches natural history, ethnobotany and 
agroecology as an emeriti faculty in the 
Department of Environmental Studies. He is the 
Heller Endowed Chair of Agroecology at UC Santa 
Cruz and has been a Kellogg Fellow and Fulbright 
Scholar. He is co-founder of the nonprofit 
Community Agroecology Network and current 
co-director of the Sustainable Living Center at 
UC Santa Cruz, where he also directs the 
undergraduate student residential Program in 
Community and Agroecology. He has published 
extensively on traditional agriculture in Mexico, 
agroecology, and sustainable agriculture. His 
textbook “Agroecology: Ecology of Sustainable 
Food Systems” is in its second edition and 
appears in four languages. He lectures in 
agroecology worldwide. He and his family dry farm 
organic wine grapes at their small ranch in the 
Cuyama Valley of Central California.

Contact: Hunter Francis
805-756-5086; <mailto:wfrancis at calpoly.edu>wfrancis at calpoly.edu

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