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Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change

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From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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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 adaptable farm. The chapter draws on real-world case studies and touches on adaptive management, nature-based solutions for cultivating healthy ecosystems, the adaptive continuum, and barriers to a resilient agriculture.

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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.