| Cornelia Butler Flora | ||
PowerPoint Presentation: Social Factors Influencing the Waters of Iowa |
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Cornelia Butler Flora is the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Sociology at Iowa State University and Director of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, a twelve state research and extension institute. Previously she was holder of the Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the University of Minnesota, head of the Sociology Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University, and a program officer for the Ford Foundation. A past president of the Rural Sociological Society, the Community Development Society, and the Society for Agriculture, Food and Human Values, she is author and editor of a number of recent books, including Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities, Rural Communities: Legacy and Change, Rural Policies for the 1990s, and Sustainable Agriculture in Temperate Zones. Her newest book is Rural Communities: Legacy and Change, Third Edition.
She has published over 140 referred articles and book chapters and participated as an invited speaker at many international conferences in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Her current research addresses alternative strategies of community economic development and community-based natural resource management, with particular attention to poverty reduction. Her Bachelor of Arts degree is from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965 and her M.S. (1966) and Ph.D. (1970) degrees are from Cornell University, where she received the 1994 Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Science. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was chair of the Boards of Directors of the Henry A. Wallace Institute of Alternative Agriculture and of the Northwest Area Foundation and is currently serving on the boards of several organizations, CONDESAN (The Consortium for the Sustainable Development of Andean Ecoregion), Winrock International, and the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture. She previously served on the National Agricultural Research, Education and Economics Advisory Board. . |
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