Darrin Qualman is Director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action for Canada’s National Farmers Union.  He is the author of the 2019 report Tackling the Farm Crisis and the Climate Crisis and the 2019 book Civilization Critical: Energy, Food, Nature, and the Future.  His research, writing, and educational pursuits over the past 20 years have all aimed at creating a big-picture view of how humans turn nature, energy sources, and technologies into cities, food supplies, manufacturing systems, and cultures.  He farmed for many years and has academic degrees in history, biology, and political stud

John Kempf is a leading crop health consultant and an internationally recognized teacher on the topic of biological agriculture and plant immunity. He has built a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition, solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology. He is the Chairman and Founder of AEA, a leading crop nutrition consulting company, and a managing partner at Zeno Capital Partners, an investment fund working in the areas of agriculture, food production, medicine and clean energy.