
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications
Campus Units
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Natural Resource Ecology and Management
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
12-2013
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
Volume
17
Issue
4
First Page
175
Last Page
199
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.
Access
Open
Copyright Owner
University of Georgia
Copyright Date
2013
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Jordan, Nicholas; Schulte, Lisa A.; Williams, Carol; Mulla, David; Pitt, David; Slotterback, Carissa Shively; Jackson, Randall; Landis, Douglas; Dale, Bruce; Becker, Dennis; Rickenbach, Mark; Helmers, Matt; and Bringi, V. Bobby, "Landlabs: An Integrated Approach to Creating Agricultural Enterprises That Meet the Triple Botom Line" (2013). Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications. 740.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/abe_eng_pubs/740
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Comments
This article is from Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 17 (2013): 175. Posted with permission.