AMES, Iowa —The baton of a common arrangement of amoebic organizations presented its top honor, the One World Accolade for Lifetime Achievement, to Fred Kirschenmann, a North Dakota amoebic agriculturalist and Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Acceptable Agronomics at Iowa State University.
The accolade was presented Sept. 19 in Legau, Germany, address of the Rapunzel Naturkost amoebic aliment aggregation whose architect accomplished the One World Awards in 2008 to account individuals, projects and avant-garde account that advance ecological, bread-and-butter and amusing improvement. The awards are co-sponsored by the All-embracing Federation of Amoebic Agronomics Movements with 800 affiliate organizations in 120 countries. OWA are presented every two years.
"For decades he (Kirschenmann) has been arch agriculturalist on the ground, a active apostle for farmers, and a longtime articulation in amoebic and acceptable agronomics in action and bookish forums," according to a greeting from IFOAM admiral Andre Leu. "We account these bodies and organizations for their successes, which we amount and allotment as active affidavit that ethics can become reality."
A columnist absolution about the accolade credibility to Kirschenmann's role in creating the Northern Plains Acceptable Agronomics Society and the all-embracing acceptance agency, Acreage Verified Amoebic Inc., which he operated for 10 years afore abutting the Leopold Center as administrator in 2000. It additionally commends Kirschenmann for his assignment with Agronomics of the Middle, a multi-state assignment force absorption on analysis and markets for midsize American farms, and as armchair of the Whiterock Conservancy that manages a 5,000-acre attention breadth in west-central Iowa.
Currently, Kirschenmann shares an arrangement as Leopold Center Distinguished Fellow and Admiral of Stone Barns Center for Aliment and Agronomics in Pocantico Hills, N.Y.
The alone added Americans accustomed were the Frey ancestors of Mendocino County, Calif., who accomplish a third-generation acreage and the aboriginal amoebic winery in the United States. They accustomed the OWA Silver Medal. Added OWA Silver Medals went to amoebic drillmaster Ibrahima Seck from Senegal, the amoebic aliment aggregation Biovega of Croatia and agronomical assistant Rita Schwentesius who has served in both Germany and Mexico.
OWA Gold Medals were presented to Hansalim, the better community-supported agronomics acreage in South Korea with added than 2,000 farmers confined 440,000 households; and the Timbaktu Collective that represents added than 20,000 barbarian farmers and rural workers from 156 villages in India.
Klass Topfer of Germany, who led the United Nations Environmental Program in Nairobi, accustomed the OWA for Very Impacting People.
