Laura Lengnick - Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

Carefully addresses the major issues facing us in agriculture, and brilliantly argues that it isnt some vague notion of technology that will show us the way forward but people working together and carefully stewarding the land. This is both an old and a novel approach, and its exactly whats needed.

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

Destined to become the gold standard for laying out the climate adaptation task and solutions before us in the 21st century, this book is both inspiring and practical at a time when we desperately need both.

Anne Waple, Founder and CEO, Earths Next Chapter

With grounded hope and urgency, Laura breaks silence and reshapes social justice language to explore issues of land and food in our changing climate.

Meta Commerse, Founder & CEO, Story Medicine Worldwide

What Lengnick is speaking of is what the UN has been calling eco-agriculture, a suite of tools and practices that not only provide greater food security but can, scaled quickly enough, undo the worst of the Fossil Ages climate karma.

Albert Bates, author, BURN: Using Fire to Cool the Earth

Wonderfully concise, practical, and beautifully written compendium of how to deal with climate changes impacts on agriculture. This book should be on the shelf of every farmer in America and abroad.

Dr. Sally Goerner, research director, Edinburgh Universitys Planetary Health Lab

A manifesto that is one part academic exploration, one part practitioner guide, and one part storytelling adventure that deepens our understanding of what resilient agriculture is and what it can be. A guidepost for building a better and more resilient food system that builds off of, and respects the foundation laid by, local and Indigenous knowledge.

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

This is a must read for anyone working in the resilience/adaptation field or contemplating doing so.

Jim Fox, senior resilience associate, NEMAC+FernLeaf

Chock-full of wisdom from farmers and ranchers on the front lines of climate change. Laura Lengnick puts their stories into context and provides the path forward to building resilient food systems.

Teresa Opheim, director, Climate Land Leaders (MN)

Everyone who works a food-related job, or who just cares about what and whether our children and grandchildren will eat, should acquaint themselves with this path-breaking, delightfully informative book.

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

Highlights the bravest among usmodern day, small and medium scale, adaptability-driven farmers who are overcoming immense obstacles and staying ahead of change on every level. We have the great good fortune to learn from them and in turn learn about cultural healing and repair.

Lee Warren, founder, Reclaiming Wisdom

An elegant and expansive exploration of food and farming in an unprecedented era of ecological violence. Lengnick compellingly offers us resilience thinking as a vast looking glass that can allow us to better grasp the complexity of the food system, nourish more holistic solutions, and stretch our socio-political imaginations.

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik, author, The Memory We Could Be

A loving prod to the sustainable agriculture movement to go beyond sustainability to the transformation of food and farming into a commons where community-based wealth truly provides for human need.

Elizabeth Henderson, farmer, writer

This is a pivotal book for all agricultural universities and farmers that recognize the urgent need to move beyond industrial agricultural practices.

Dr. James Gruber, professor emeritus, Antioch University, author, Building Community

Provides the conceptual guidebook and strategic road map for navigating through the perils of climate instability in the quest for economic viability and long-run food security.

John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri

Shows that farmers, ranchers, fishers, and gatherers are humanitys best hope for connecting ourselves to nature. To help these innovators thrive, well need to construct regenerative food systems community by community.

Ken Meter, author,Building Community Food Webs

Gifts us practical insights and plenty of examples of how we can reshape our food system from being depleting to one that is resilient and regenerative. Thank-you Laura for your practical guidance and inspiration.

Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., Founder and President, Global Footprint Network, co-author Ecological Footprint

A brilliant, hopeful book and a call to action.

Marianne Landzettel, journalist and author, Regenerative Agriculture: Farming with Benefits

Offers great hope, showing how farming based on reciprocal relationships of carewith soil, animals, ecosystems, and communitiescan create sustainable farms and foodsheds. This book is timely, rigorous, practical, and wise.

David Bollier, commons scholar/activist at Schumacher Center for a New Economics, author, The Commoners Catalog for Changemaking and Free, Fair, and Alive

Mixing specific stories from current farmers with theory and analysis, Lengnick lays out a path for systemic, practical, and realistic transformation.

Peter H. Lehner, managing attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming, Earthjustice, and co-author, Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture .

Artfully guides the reader through the rationale and process that will result in more regional and resilient systems. The book shifts from the theoretical to the practical with leading practitioners across geographies and production systems that demonstrate that a more resilient agriculture is possible.

David LeZaks, PhD, Senior Fellow, Croatan Institute

An accessible and inspiring illustration of resilience thinking and a rich collection of stories from farmers and ranchers, Lengnick helps to make the case for what is both possible and necessary in being clear eyed about and adapting to our changing climate.

Curtis Ogden, senior associate, Interaction Institute for Social Change, lead facilitator, Food Solutions New England

Whether you are just stepping onto the resilience thinking footpath to those of us that are well-versed in projected climate change impacts to our food and fiber systems, Resilient Agriculture offers guideposts to encourage our individual and collective journeys towards a hopeful agriculture production vision that leaves no one behind.

Michelle Lovejoy, Landscapes Resilience, Environmental Defense Fund

When we think about how we will sustainably feed ourselves now and for future generations, the resilience of our food systems is front and center. Lengnick gives us hope by presenting the various solutions and tools applied across multiple foodways. We also get to peek into the lives of many people and communities working towards resilient food- and eco-systems across America, giving us some hope that maybe, just maybe, there is a path forward to adapt and move towards a sustainable food future.

Jess Fanzo, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Lengnicks plea to adopt resilient thinking in how we approach the most basic of human needsfeeding ourselvesoffers critical guidance in a time of unparalleled crossroads of climate, the pandemic and social justice.