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Lester R. Brown has started his career as a farmer, growing tomatoes in New Jersey during high school and college. Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955, he spent six months living in rural India. In 1959, Brown left farming to join the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service as an international analyst. Brown has an MS in Agricultural Economics from the University of Maryland and an MPA from Harvard. In 1964, he became an adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman on foreign agricultural policy. In 1966, the Secretary appointed him Administrator of the department's International Agricultural Development Service. At the beginning of 1969, he left government to help James Grant, former head of UNICEF, establish the Overseas Development Council. In 1974, with support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Lester Brown founded the Worldwatch Institute, a private non-profit research institute dedicated to the analysis of global environmental issues, and ten years later he launched the State of the World reports. These annual assessments have become the Bible of the global environment movement. Translated into all the world's major languages - Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Polish and Italian - State of the World has now achieved a semi-official status. In 1988, Brown expanded Worldwatch's publications by launching World Watch, a bimonthly magazine. He is project director of the "Environmental Alert" book series (inaugurated in 1991) and of Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, the new annual launched in 1992. He is also the author of a dozen books, among which Man, Land and Food, World Without Borders, By Bread Alone and Building a Sustainable Society. Among his many awards are the 1986 MacArthur Fellow Award, the 1987 United Nations' Environment Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize for "his exceptional contributions to solving global environmental problems". See also: http://www.worldwatch.org |
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