Resilient Agriculture: Expanded & Updated Second Edition , livre ebook

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• Online/social media outreach: Resilient Agriculture Facebook Page, CARE (Climate Change and Resilience Platform), and the National Farmers Union Climate Leaders Page
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• Presents the latest research-based understanding of climate adaptation strategies through the personal experience of nationally recognized sustainable farmers managing crops and livestock across the American landscape.
• Previous editions of this best-seller have sold 3 000
• New edition includes over 50% new material:
  • Up-to-date climate science, risk analyses, and resilience assessments
  • Easy-to-read table of expected regional weather changes
  • New details on production systems
  • Updates on the 27 farmers featured in the first edition
  • A new chapter on 4 emerging climate solutions
    • climate smart, carbon farming, carbon
    • neutral, and regenerative farming
  • Updated final chapter featuring the most recent innovations
• The author is an award-winning scientist with 30 years experience as researcher, educator, and policy maker in agricultural and food systems
• She was the lead author of the USDA bulletin, "Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation"

Intended Audience: Farmers, technical farm advisors, policy makers, foodies, activists, teachers and students of agriculture, general public interested in climate change and agriculture issues.

Regional: Case Study Locations:
Bishops Orchards Guilford, CT
Almar Orchards and Farm Flushing, MI
Shepherd Farms Clifton Hill, MO
Tonnemaker Family Orchard Royal City, WA
Ela Family Farms Hotchkiss, CO
Zenner Family Farms Genesee, ID
Quinn Farm and Ranch Big Sandy, MT
Rosmann Family Farms Harlan, IA
Fuller Family Farm Emporia, KS
Brown's Ranch Bismarck, ND
CS Ranch Cimarron, NM
Gunthorp Farms LaGrange, IN
Cates Family Farms Spring Green, WI
Sap Bush Hollow Farm Warnerville NY
Frasier Farms Woodrow, CO
77 Ranch Blooming Grove, TX
White Oak Pastures Bluffton, Georgia
Happy Cow Creamery Pelzer, SC
Rockey Farms Center, CO
Nash's Organic Produce Sequim, WA
Full Belly Farm Guinda CA
Harmony Valley Farm Viroqua, WI
Peacework Farm Newark NY
New Morning Farm Hustontown, PA
Monroe Organic Farms Kersey, CO
Peregrine FarmGraham, NC
Maple Spring Gardens Cedar Grove, NC

New producers in MN, CA, AL, OH, and NY

International: Resilient agriculture is widespread in Europe, India, and Africa. International development agencies are very involved in building local resiliency.

Academic: University of Montana, Montana State University, University of Illinois, University of Vermont, University of Maine, Michigan State University, and Clemson University

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

Practical insights and plenty of examples of how we can reshape our food system to one that is resilient and regenerative.

— Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., founder and president, Global Footprint Network, co-author Ecological Footprint

Inspiring and practical at a time when we desperately need both.

— Dr. Anne Waple, founder and CEO, Earth's Next Chapter

Brilliantly argues that it isn't some vague notion of "technology" that will show us the way forward but people working together and carefully stewarding the land.

— Mark Bittman, author, Animal, Vegetable, Junk and How to Cook Everything

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.

What would a more resilient food system look like? Lengnick answers that question with this path-breaking, delightfully informative book.

— Richard Heinberg, senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

A guidepost for building a better and more resilient food system.

— Dr. Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, director, Women for the Land, American Farmland Trust

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Acknowledgments

PART 1— Why Think Resilience?

1. Waking Up to Climate Change

— Unprecedented — Running into Resilience — A Real-World Test of Resilience — A Word About Hope

2. Climate Change Is Changing the Weather

— Two Decades of Disaster — The Climate Change Challenge — Understanding Climate Vulnerability

3. Understanding Exposure

— Regional Changes and Expected Changes in Weather

4. Understanding Sensitivity

— Crops and Livestock — Soil and Water — Weeds, Insects and Disease — People, Community, Money

5. Understanding Adaptive Capacity

— Farms and Ranches Are Ecosystems — Cultivating Adaptive Capacity

6. Managing Climate Risk: Adaptation Stories

— Farmers and Ranchers in the Northwest and Southwest — Farmers and Ranchers in the Great Plains — Farmers in the Midwest — Farmers in the Northeast and Southeast— A New Path for American Agriculture?

PART 2— The Rules of Resilience?

7. A New Way to Think About Solutions

— Resilience Is Not What You Think — Describing a Social-Ecological System: Focal Scale, Identity and Desirability — More Than Bouncing Back

8. The Qualities and Behaviors of Resilient Systems

— The Raw Material of Resilience: Diversity — A Diversified Portfolio of Assets — Key Resilience Behaviors — Specified and General Resilience — Resilience Design Principles

9. The Rules of Resilience

— Diverse Networks of Reciprocal Relationship — Regional Self-Reliance — Accumulation of Community-Based Wealth — Moving Beyond Industrialism: A Just Transformation

10. Is Sustainable Agriculture a Resilient Agriculture?

— What is Sustainable Agriculture? — Cultivating Resilience with Sustainable Agriculture

11. Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change

— Navigating Uncertainty with Adaptive Management — Whole Farm Planning Is Adaptive Management — Nature-Based Solutions: Cultivating Healthy Ecosystems for Land, People and Community — The Adaptive Continuum: Protect, Adapt, Transform — Barriers to a Resilient Agriculture: From the Farm Gate to Your Plate

PART 3— What Path to Resilience?

12. The Light and the Dark of These Times

— From Land to Mouth: In Search of Sustainable Food — Indigenous Foodways — The Good Food Movement

13. Adding Resilience to the Menu

— The Regional Roots of Resilience — Metropolitan Foodsheds

14. The Way Forward

— Twelve Things That You Can Do to Cultivate a Resilient Agriculture

PART 4— Real World Resilience: Stories of Land, People and Community

15. Vegetables

— A.G. Kawamura, Fullerton, California — Hannah Breckbill, Decorah, Iowa — Rebecca Graff and Tom Ruggieri, Kearney, Missouri — Marc White, Keymah Durden and David Hester, Cleveland, Ohio — Ira Wallace and Mary Berry, Mineral, Virginia — Pam Dawling, Louisa, Virginia — C. Bernard Obie, Roxboro, North Carolina

16. Fruits and Nuts

— Mark Shepard, Viroqua, Wisconsin — Walker Miller, Six Mile, South Carolina

17. Grains

— Bryce Lundberg, Richvale, California — Gail Fuller, Severy, Kansas

18. Livestock

— Albert Straus, Marshall, California — Jordan Settlage, St. Mary's, Ohio — Jamie Ager, Fairview, North Carolina

Notes

Index

About the Author

About New Society Publishers