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Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate

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

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.

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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.
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 The author talks about climate change, her own experiences and activities in the world of climate action and lessons she’s learned, resilience thinking, and hope. She also introduces the … 14 $1.40

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 This chapter presents current and projected changes in weather-related challenges across the U.S. It presents specific examples of unprecedented disruptions and shocks associated with climate … 18 $1.80

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 This chapter talks about exposure and dealing with climate change, offering some climate change adaptation concepts that help to clarify options that reduce climate risk and cultivate the climate … 16 $1.60

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 This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … 13 $1.30

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 This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. The … 14 $1.40

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 This book shares the adaptation stories of more than 40 sustainable farmers and ranchers growing food across the U.S.. Sections include: Farmers and Ranchers in the Northwest and Southwest … 17 $1.70

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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 … 17 $1.70

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 This chapter explores the qualities and behaviours of resilient systems, which come in different shapes, kinds, and sizes. The author explores qualities that cultivate resilience such as … 24 $2.40

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 This chapter explores rules of resilience, which are: to Cultivate diverse networks of reciprocal relationship, to Cultivate regional self-reliance, and to Cultivate the accumulation of … 15 $1.50

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 This chapter examines the topic of sustainable agriculture, the U.S. food system, food and farming philosophies, and resilience. The chapter draws on real-world case studies. 18 $1.80

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 This chapter summarizes the key innovations and practices that the farmers featured in the book have implemented to deal with climate change and describes the main attributes of a sustainable … 24 $2.40

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 The author reflects on the light and dark of these times as she writes in the summer of 2021. Topics include: the sustainable food movement, Indigenous foodways, the good food movement, … 19 $1.90

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 The author talks about the new greater awareness if climate change, popular solutions (which she critiques), and food system resilience. This chapter touches on the regional roots of resilience … 16 $1.60

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 This chapter muses on the way forward from here for our food system, looking to social-ecological resilience thinking, which offers new concepts, a new language and an effective framework for … 8 $0.80

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 This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. It … 58 $5.80

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 This chapter features case studies of fruit and nut growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. It features various resilience … 23 $2.30

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 This chapter features case studies of grain growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. It features various resilience … 20 $2.00

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 This chapter features case studies of livestock ranchers in different climates and highlights the effects they are feeling from climate change and the innovations they are using to adapt and … 27 $2.70