Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate Paperback - 2015
by Laura Lengnick
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As we start to change the weather, resilience will become a watchword for farmers, as this fine book demonstrates. It's strong advice--and it reinforces the essential truth, which is that we must keep climate from changing too much--because there's nothing even the best farmer can do to cope with a truly overheated planet.
-- BILL MCKIBBEN, author, Deep Economy
MANAGING CROPS and livestock in a changing climate creates unprecedented challenges for North American food producers. Resilient Agriculture explores the solutions in sustainable agriculture by blending the experiences of award- winning farmers and ranchers with a comprehensive review of the latest science on climate risk, adaptation and resilience to examine:
to cultivate a resilient food future.
The climate change challenge is real, and it is here now. The rich knowledge base contained in Resilient Agriculture serves as the cornerstone of an evolving, climateready food system that sustains land and community well into the 21st century. [Lengnick] asks farmers and ranchers who are creating new food systems that are more climate and community friendly to tell their stories of what they are doing, how they are doing it, and why.
Accessible and compelling-- a must-read that builds hope for systemic change for a more sustainable future.
-- CORNELIA BUTLER FLORA, Charles F Curtiss Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Agriculture and Life Science, Iowa State University; and Research Professor, Kansas State University
LAURA LENGNICK is a researcher, policymaker, activist, educator and farmer whose work explores the community-enhancing potential of sustainable agriculture and food systems. Laura contributed to the 3rd National Climate Assessment as a lead author of the USDA report Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation. After leading the academic program in sustainable agriculture at Warren Wilson College for more than a decade, Laura is now an affiliated researcher with the Local Food Research Center and a climate resilience planning consultant with Fernleaf Solutions, both located in Asheville, NC.
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- Title Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate
- Author Laura Lengnick
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Society Publishers
- Date 2015-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780865717749 / 0865717745
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
- Library of Congress subjects Climatic changes, Sustainable agriculture
- Dewey Decimal Code 630.9
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