"This book addresses a quiet revolution in California agriculture, an important story that few people know. It provides a powerful analytic tool for anyone investigating collaborative efforts to prevent pollution and promote environmental protection in food and fiber."--David Runsten, UCLA School of Public Affairs, and Executive Director, Community Alliance with Family Farmers "Warner demonstrates that the evolution of ecologically sound agricultural practices is not likely to occur without a coordinated effort that combines science-based knowledge, experience-based information, well executed social dynamics, and political support. He does a masterful job of making this case, which is grounded both in sound ecological and social theory and in actual case studies. This book will make a significant contribution to deliberations on the future of land-grant universities as they reinvent themselves for the 21st century." Frederick L. Kirschenmann , Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University
Keith Douglass Warner is Faith, Ethics, and Vocation Project Director in the Environmental Studies Institute at Santa Clara University, where he is also a Lecturer. He is a Franciscan Friar. Mun S. Ho is Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Robert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy and founder and former Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press) and other books.
Keith Warner has done us a great favour in a very engaging way. In
parallel to a candid assessment of the pervading obstacles to the
advancement of agroecology in the United States, he has presented
that which is working and why through a number of stories in a
highly readable format....Thanks to Warner for a hopeful piece
about American agriculture.
*Constance L. Neely, Agricultural Systems*
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