Donald Quayle Innis (April 21, 1924 – August 24, 1988), son of Harold Innis and Mary Quayle, was a geographer, whose primary research interest was the use of intercropping in traditional agriculture.
[1] Following his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, he studied under Carl O. Sauer at the University of California at Berkeley, with field studies culminating in a PhD dissertation on Human Ecology in Jamaica.
His findings were published in numerous research papers, and in the book Intercropping and the Scientific Basis of Traditional Agriculture.
[3] 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.
[5] He is commemorated by the Dr. Donald Innis Memorial Annual Minority Scholarship.