Donald Quayle Innis (April 21, 1924 – August 24, 1988), son of

Harold Innis Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 9, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped devel ...

and Mary Quayle, was a geographer, whose primary research interest was the use of

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in traditional agriculture. Following his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, he studied under

Carl O. Sauer Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the d ...

at the University of California at Berkeley, with field studies culminating in a PhD dissertation on ''Human Ecology in Jamaica''. He subsequently applied the knowledge gained about farming practices in

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to further studies of traditional agriculture, most notably in

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, India, as well as in other parts of

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, and

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. His findings were published in numerous research papers, and in the book ''Intercropping and the Scientific Basis of Traditional Agriculture''. He did extensive field studies to determine what crop combinations were used in traditional agriculture, comparing these to scientific investigations of the compatibility of various crops; and compared yields obtainable with and without the use of intercropping. Other research interests included communications and resource utilization. He taught at

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, and at the Geneseo campus of the

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, where he received the 1979 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is commemorated by the Dr. Donald Innis Memorial Annual Minority Scholarship.

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