Laura Lengnick

Resilient Agriculture: Expanded & Updated Second Edition (eBook, ePUB)

Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food

Practical insights and plenty of examples of how we can reshape our food system to one that is resilient and regenerative.
- Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., founder and president, Global Footprint Network, co-author Ecological Footprint

Inspiring and practical at a time when we desperately need both.
- Dr. Anne Waple, founder and CEO, Earth's Next Chapter

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.
- Mark Bittman, author, Animal, Vegetable, Junk and How to Cook Everything

CLIMATE 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771423397
• Artikelnr.: 58515768

Autorenporträt

Laura Lengnick is an award-winning soil scientist with 25 years of experience working as a researcher, policy maker, educator, and farmer to put sustainability values into action in agriculture and food systems. She is the founder and principal at Cultivating Resilience, LLC, in Asheville, NC.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 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 Publishers