Resilient Agriculture: Expanded & Updated Second Edition

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




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