Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness

by Michael Foley

Book Overview

It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today's most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation is equally imperiled. And there's another, even more dire limitation that is looming: at current rates of erosion, the world's topsoil will be gone in sixty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603588000
• ISBN13: 9781603588003
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"