John Ikerd

When speaking at public events about the negative impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operators or CAFOs, I am often asked how best to...

It has been a year now since COVID 19 was proclaimed a pandemic. Virtually everyone has experienced the disruption of the food system in...

The "Green New Deal"[i] has been systematically demonized by corporate propaganda targeting rural America. Rural people have been led to...

I have been writing a regular column for the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development for the past 10 years. My...

How can the U.S. government pay the economic costs of fulfilling its responsibility to secure liberty and justice for all?

“We need to run government like a business”--a common refrain in the U.S. But, governments and businesses have very different purposes.

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the absolute economic dependency of farming communities on the corporately controlled agri-food...

In my previous blog post, I focused on opportunities for specific changes in the food system created by the COVID-19 crisis.

A response to questions I have been asked about the implications of the coronavirus pandemic for the future of the food system.

“American Farmers Feed the World!” This popular myth is promoted to maintain public support for a failed system of industrial agriculture.

Those of us who are unaffected, or less affected, economically by the crisis can easily afford to pay the economic costs of public health.

We are living through a time of fundamental change in human society, as is becoming increasingly clear. Climate change, fossil energy...

In meeting the challenges of climate change, we can choose; We can bet on market-based solutions or follow the path of the Green New Deal.

Several presidential candidates are promising to reform antitrust policies to restore competition to markets. This blog examines why.

We are now seeing a corporate takeover of dairy production, which is the last bastion of full-time, independent animal production.

The Constitution of the United States gives very few economic responsibilities to government.

If we are to preserve our democracy and continue living in a civilized society, we must make government work. Unfortunately, too many...

Over the past few months, I have heard and read several urgent warnings of an impending civilizational collapse from highly respected...

We are confronted today with a multidimensional ecological, social, and economic crises that is rooted in our growing sense of...

Does farm size matter for agricultural sustainability? My answer consistently has been, yes! It’s easier to manage a small farm...