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The local food revolution : how humanity will feed itself in uncertain times / Michael Brownlee.

by Brownlee, Michael, 1946-

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North Atlantic Books, c2016.

9781623170004 (pbk.)

1623170001 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

How humanity will feed itself in uncertain times

xvi, 438 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. What must be said now -- 1. Toward a local food revolution -- 2. The local food declaration of independence -- 3. The coming revolution -- 4. Note to the reader -- Part 2. The making of an evolutionary catalyst -- 5. Beginnings: the convergence of global crises -- 6. Going local!: a coherent community response -- 7. In transition: a movement dies, another is born -- 8. The evolution of transition in the United States -- 9. Diving into food -- Part 3. The full extent of our predicament -- 10. Peak everything revisited -- 11. Climate collapse: the rogue factor -- 12. Stories from the front lines -- Part 4. Emergence: the evolutionary perspective -- 13. The problem with peak everything -- 14. Patterns of emergence: the evolutionary process -- 15. Human evolution at the turn -- 16. Message to students -- 17. Radicalization -- Part 5. Toward deep revolution -- 18. A truly revolutionary revolution -- 19. Deep revolution and the evolutionary catalyst -- Part 6. Field notes for the emergence of a foodshed -- 20. How the local food revolution can unfold -- 21. Toward a pattern language for food localization -- 22. Deadwood: a parable -- 23. Overview of the process -- 24. The evolutionary catalyst and the emerging foodshed -- 25. Patterns of emergence in an awakening foodshed -- Part 7. Revolution in practice -- 26. From theory of change to theory of revolution -- 27. Christopher Alexander and the evolutionary catalyst -- 28. The secrets of cocreative collaboration -- Part 8. The future of food -- 29. Preparing for climate collapse -- 30. The moral challenge of biotechnology -- 31. The role of animals in local food and agriculture -- 32. the promise of controlled-environment agriculture -- 33. Shifting local capital into the foodshed -- 34. What we all can do -- Afterword: Inhabiting our foodshed.

"Demonstrating that humanity faces an imminent and prolonged global food crisis, Michael Brownlee issues a clarion call and manifesto for a revolutionary movement to localize the global food supply. He lays out a practical guide for those who hope to navigate the challenging process of shaping the local or regional food system, providing a roadmap for embarking on the process of righting the profoundly unsustainable and already-failing global industrialized food system. Written to inform, inspire, and empower anyone€”farmers or ranchers, community gardeners, aspiring food entrepreneurs, supply chain venturers, commercial food buyers, restaurateurs, investors, community food activists, non-profit agencies, policy makers, or local government leaders€”who hopes to be a catalyst for change, this book provides a blueprint for economic action, with specific suggestions that make the process more conscious and deliberate."-- Amazon.com.

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