Resilient Agriculture: Expanded & Updated Second Edition: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

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
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