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Connecting Researchers and Practitioners
to Create Stronger
Food Systems
and Healthier Communities
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Thomas “Tom” A. Lyson
1948–2006
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University
Father of Civic Agriculture
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