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OverviewClimate Change presents an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. Damaging weather variability and extremes capture the headlines, but more subtle changes caused by hotter summer nights, warmer winters, and a longer growing season have far-reaching effects on the land, people, and communities that feed us. This expanded and updated edition of Resilient Agriculture takes you beyond the headlines and the hype to shine a light on agricultural climate solutions with the power to cultivate new American foodways that are just, sustainable, regenerative, and resilient. Updated content includes: Current and expected changes in regional weather patterns that disrupt food and farming New adaptation stories from sustainable, climate-smart, organic, and regenerative farmers and updates on the producers featured in the first edition Real-world applications of resilience thinking that connect the dots between food justice, sustainable development, regenerative economy, and planetary health A companion website with stories, videos, issue briefs, reading guides, and more. Whether you are working in food and farming or are simply an interested eater, Resilient Agriculture will take you on a journey into real-world resilience solutions with the power to regenerate the well-being of land, people, and community no matter the challenges ahead. 'What would a more resilient food system look like? Lengnick answers that question with this path-breaking, delightfully informative book.' — Richard Heinberg, senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival 'A guidepost for building a better and more resilient food system.' — Dr. Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, director, Women for the Land, American Farmland Trust Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura LengnickPublisher: New Society Publishers Imprint: New Society Publishers Edition: Expanded and Updated Second Edition Dimensions: Width: 19.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780865719507ISBN 10: 0865719500 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 14 June 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PART 1— Why Think Resilience? 1. Waking Up to Climate Change — Unprecedented — Running into Resilience — A Real-World Test of Resilience — A Word About Hope 2. Climate Change Is Changing the Weather — Two Decades of Disaster — The Climate Change Challenge — Understanding Climate Vulnerability 3. Understanding Exposure — Regional Changes and Expected Changes in Weather 4. Understanding Sensitivity — Crops and Livestock — Soil and Water — Weeds, Insects and Disease — People, Community, Money 5. Understanding Adaptive Capacity — Farms and Ranches Are Ecosystems — Cultivating Adaptive Capacity 6. Managing Climate Risk: Adaptation Stories — Farmers and Ranchers in the Northwest and Southwest — Farmers and Ranchers in the Great Plains — Farmers in the Midwest — Farmers in the Northeast and Southeast— A New Path for American Agriculture? PART 2— The Rules of Resilience? 7. A New Way to Think About Solutions — Resilience Is Not What You Think — Describing a Social-Ecological System: Focal Scale, Identity and Desirability — More Than Bouncing Back 8. The Qualities and Behaviors of Resilient Systems — The Raw Material of Resilience: Diversity — A Diversified Portfolio of Assets — Key Resilience Behaviors — Specified and General Resilience — Resilience Design Principles 9. The Rules of Resilience — Diverse Networks of Reciprocal Relationship — Regional Self-Reliance — Accumulation of Community-Based Wealth — Moving Beyond Industrialism: A Just Transformation 10. Is Sustainable Agriculture a Resilient Agriculture? — What is Sustainable Agriculture? — Cultivating Resilience with Sustainable Agriculture 11. Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change — Navigating Uncertainty with Adaptive Management — Whole Farm Planning Is Adaptive Management — Nature-Based Solutions: Cultivating Healthy Ecosystems for Land, People and Community — The Adaptive Continuum: Protect, Adapt, Transform — Barriers to a Resilient Agriculture: From the Farm Gate to Your Plate PART 3— What Path to Resilience? 12. The Light and the Dark of These Times — From Land to Mouth: In Search of Sustainable Food — Indigenous Foodways — The Good Food Movement 13. Adding Resilience to the Menu — The Regional Roots of Resilience — Metropolitan Foodsheds 14. The Way Forward — Twelve Things That You Can Do to Cultivate a Resilient Agriculture PART 4— Real World Resilience: Stories of Land, People and Community 15. Vegetables — A.G. Kawamura, Fullerton, California — Hannah Breckbill, Decorah, Iowa — Rebecca Graff and Tom Ruggieri, Kearney, Missouri — Marc White, Keymah Durden and David Hester, Cleveland, Ohio — Ira Wallace and Mary Berry, Mineral, Virginia — Pam Dawling, Louisa, Virginia — C. Bernard Obie, Roxboro, North Carolina 16. Fruits and Nuts — Mark Shepard, Viroqua, Wisconsin — Walker Miller, Six Mile, South Carolina 17. Grains — Bryce Lundberg, Richvale, California — Gail Fuller, Severy, Kansas 18. Livestock — Albert Straus, Marshall, California — Jordan Settlage, St. Mary's, Ohio — Jamie Ager, Fairview, North Carolina Notes Index About the Author About New Society PublishersReviewsCarefully addresses the major issues facing us in agriculture, and brilliantly argues that it isn't some vague notion of technology that will show us the way forward but people working together and carefully stewarding the land. This is both an old and a novel approach, and it's exactly what's needed. - Mark Bittman, author, Animal, Vegetable, Junk and How to Cook Everything Everyone who works a food-related job, or who just cares about what and whether our children and grandchildren will eat, should acquaint themselves with this path-breaking, delightfully informative book. - Richard Heinberg, senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival Whether you are just stepping onto the resilience thinking footpath to those of us that are well-versed in projected climate change impacts to our food and fiber systems, Resilient Agriculture offers guideposts to encourage our individual and collective journeys towards a hopeful agriculture production vision that leaves no one behind. - Michelle Lovejoy, Landscapes Resilience, Environmental Defense Fund Wonderfully concise, practical, and beautifully written compendium of how to deal with climate change's impacts on agriculture. This book should be on the shelf of every farmer in America and abroad. - Dr. Sally Goerner, research director, Edinburgh University's Planetary Health Lab Provides the conceptual guidebook and strategic road map for navigating through the perils of climate instability in the quest for economic viability and long-run food security. - John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri Gifts us practical insights and plenty of examples of how we can reshape our food system from being depleting to one that is resilient and regenerative. Thank-you Laura for your practical guidance and inspiration. - Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., Founder and President, Global Footprint Network, co-author Ecological Footprint Mixing specific stories from current farmers with theory and analysis, Lengnick lays out a path for systemic, practical, and realistic transformation. - Peter H. Lehner, managing attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming, Earthjustice, and co-author, Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture. A brilliant, hopeful book and a call to action. - Marianne Landzettel, journalist and author, Regenerative Agriculture: Farming with Benefits Author InformationLaura Lengnick is an award-winning soil scientist with 30 years of experience working as a researcher, policymaker, educator, activist and farmer to put sustainability values into action in U.S. food and farming. Her research in soil health and sustainable farming systems was nationally recognized with a USDA Secretary's Honor Award in 2002 and she served as a lead author of the 2013 USDA report, Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation. Over the last decade, Laura has led federal, state and regional projects exploring agricultural climate solutions that cultivate resilient land, people and community. Laura served on the leadership team of NC-ADAPT in 2015, led the Climate-Resilient Agriculture Initiative in the Hudson Valley of New York in 2018, and led the design of Clemson University's Multifunctional Agriculture Destination in 2019. She was the agriculture lead on the Natural and Working Lands Action Plan included in the North Carolina Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan released in 2020. Laura is a Visiting Professor in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences at Clemson University and a member of the Planetary Health Lab at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). She founded and owns Cultivating Resilience, LLC, a private firm that works with organizations of all kinds to integrate resilience thinking into operations and strategic planning. In 2021, Laura joined the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming as the Director of Agriculture. She resides in Asheville, NC. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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