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A New Way to Think About Solutions

PART 2

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From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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This chapter discusses climate change as a major threat to our food system and various possible solutions for tackling this threat. It expands on the concept of resilience and also touches on the concepts of focal scale, identity, desirability, response capacity, recovery capacity, transformation capacity, recovery, and transformation, among other topics.

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Laura Lengnick

Laura Lengnick has worked for decades to put sustainability values into action as a researcher, policymaker, educator, activist, and farmer. She led award-winning soil health and sustainable farming research at USDA and served as a lead author of the USDA report, Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation. Laura founded and owns Cultivating Resilience, LLC, and serves as the Director of Agriculture at the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming. She lives in Asheville, NC.