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| Collections | The Future of Food: How Small Farms are Responding to Climate Change and Corporate Agriculture |
Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate
From: Resilient Agriculture
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The final chapter of the book looks beyond the farm and assesses ways for the entire food production system – from farm to table – to become more resilient. Everything from transportation, to preservation, to consumer habits and waste management can be made more sustainable and adaptable to function in a changing world.
Contributors
Laura Lengnick
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.
