Ivan Garth Youngberg was the founder and director of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture.

He graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in Political Science in 1971.
He taught at Southwest Missouri State University, where he was chairman of the Political Science department until 1981.
He was a member of the United States Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

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 (USDA) Study Team for Organic Farming,
and Organic Resources Coordinator, for the USDA.

He lost his job during the Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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administration transition.
He was a specialist with the Maryland Environmental Service.
He supported the Organic Farming Research Foundation.

Works

• Alternative Farming Systems and Rural Communities: Exploring the Connections: Symposium Proceedings, Editors Garth Youngberg, Neill Schaller, Henry A. Wallace Center for Agriculture & Environmental Policy at Winrock International, 1992, ISBN 9781893182028
• "Sustainable Agriculture: An Overview", Sustainable agriculture in temperate zones, Editors Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Butler Flora, Larry D. King, Wiley-Interscience, 1990, ISBN 9780471622277
• "Policy Considerations for a Sustainable Agriculture", Sustainable Agriculture in California: Proceedings of a Research Symposium, Sacramento, California, March 15–16, 1990, Editor David Chaney, ANR Publications, 1991, ISBN 9781879906020
• Understanding the True Cost of Food: Considerations for a Sustainable Food System: Symposium Proceedings, Editors Garth Youngberg, Otto Doering, Henry A. Wallace Center for Agriculture & Environmental Policy at Winrock International, 1991, ISBN 9781893182141
• Biotechnology in Agriculture: Implications for Sustainability: Symposium Proceedings, Henry A. Wallace Center for Agriculture & Environmental Policy at Winrock International, 1986, ISBN 9781893182035
• "The Alternative Agricultural Movement", Policy Studies Journal, Volume 6 Issue 4, Pages 524 - 530
• Federal administration and participatory democracy: the ASCS farmer committee system, Volume 1971, Part 1, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1971
• John F. Kennedy's views on presidential power, Western Illinois University, 1966

External links

• Oral "History Interview with Garth Youngberg". Jane Potter Gates, AFSIC Oral History Series
• "Interview with Garth Youngberg - Part VI", Organic Cooking