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Science 15 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5831, pp. 1570 - 1571
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141700
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Policy Forum

ENVIRONMENT:
Sustainable Development of the Agricultural Bio-Economy

N. Jordan,1* G. Boody,2 W. Broussard,3 J. D. Glover,4 D. Keeney,5 B. H. McCown,6 G. McIsaac,7 M. Muller,5 H. Murray,8 J. Neal,9 C. Pansing,10 R. E. Turner,11 K. Warner,12 D. Wyse1

A U.S. farm policy shift to joint production of commodities and ecological services will advance sustainable agriculture.

1Agronomy and Plant Genetics Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55018

2Land Stewardship Project, White Bear Lake, MN 55110

3Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

4The Land Institute, Salina, KS 67401

5Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN 55404

6Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706

7Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801

8Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108

9Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

10Mississippi River Basin Alliance, Minneapolis, MN

11Coastal Ecology Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

12Environmental Studies Institute, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 94053, USA

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: jorda020{at}umn.edu

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