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Zusatztext 43312907 Informationen zum Autor Michael Brownlee Klappentext 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. Brownlee, cofounder of the nonprofit Local Food Shift Group, maps out the underlying process of food localization and outlines the route that communities, regions, and foodsheds often follow in their efforts to take control of food production and distribution. By sharing the strategies that have proven successful, he charts a practical path forward while indicating approaches that otherwise might be invisible and unexplored. Stories and interviews illustrate how food localization is happening on the ground and in the field. Essays and thought-pieces explore some of the challenging ethical, moral, economic, and social dilemmas and thresholds that might arise as the local food shift develops. For anyone who wants to understand, in concrete terms, the unique challenges and extraordinary opportunities that present themselves as we address one of the most urgent issues of our time, The Local Food Revolution is an indispensable resource. Zusammenfassung 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 anyonefarmers 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 leaderswho 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. Brownlee! cofounder of the nonprofit Local Food Shift Group! maps out the underlying process of food localization and outlines the route that communities! regions! and foodsheds often follow in their efforts to take control of food production and distribution. By sharing the strategies that have proven successful! he charts a practical path forward while indicating approaches that otherwise might be invisible and unexplored. Stories and interviews illustrate how food localization is happening on the ground and in the field. Essays and thought-pieces explore some of the challenging ethical! moral! economic! and social dilemmas and thresholds that might arise as the local food shift develops. For anyone who wants to understand! in concrete terms! the unique challenges and extraordinary opportunities that present themselves as we address one of the most urgent issues of our time! The Local Food Revolution is an indispensable resource. ...
ldquo;This is the local food book that needed to be written. As Brownlee so chillingly details, our globalized food system is in crisis. Food scarcity looms in the all-too-near future. If we’re to continue getting square meals three times a day, we too need to join this quest to localize our food supply.” —Tim Rinne, state coordinator, Nebraskans for Peace; cofounder, Hawley Hamlet Community Garden; and charter member, Lincoln-Lancaster Food Policy Council
 
“The Local Food Revolution is a must-read for anyone who is concerned about the current state of the industrial, global food system and who asks, ‘What can I do to help awaken my foodshed?’” —Veronica House, PhD, associate faculty director for service-learning and outreach, University of Colorado, Boulder
 
“What begins as Michael Brownlee’s own journey from concerned activist to community catalyst becomes a handbook for ‘deep revolution,’ with local and regional food systems at the center of it all. For those concerned that change is not enough, he offers not just a revolutionary call to action, but also a new path forward.” —Philip Ackerman-Leist, professor of sustainable agriculture and food systems, Green Mountain College, Vermont, and author of Rebuilding the Foodshed
 
“Mixing history and philosophy with a hopeful yet realistic call to action, Michael Brownlee’s profound work demands immediate attention. One of the single most important elements of our fate as a species is the state of our global food system grid as it exists in small local equations. Brownlee gives us the perfect opportunity and the tools to once and for all solve for x. The Local Food Revolution is the blueprint for the future wellness of our planetary community.”
—Daniel Asher, executive chef, River and Woods and co-chair, Chefs Collaborative/Colorado
 
“Michael Brownlee’s book is a wide-ranging discussion from his early recognition of the changes affecting our planet and his important, ongoing identification of and engagement with ideas and models from influential leaders, thinkers, and movers (of which he is one). Rather than just observe and report, he is a leader who participates, implements, tests, and catalyzes emerging ideas and concepts. This book is an inspiration to anyone who feels our problems are too big to address and that we can't do anything; they aren’t, and we can.”
—Jack Round, Transition Omaha, Let’s Eat Investment Group
 
“The multi-layered global crisis, and in particular, abrupt climate change, demand nothing less than a local food revolution that reaches far beyond farmers markets and buying local. Every human life going forward depends on a radical transformation of our relationship with food and how we provide it for our communities. Michael Brownlee maps this revolution with laser clarity. If you eat, you must read this book.”
—Carolyn Baker, PhD, author of Love In The Age of Ecological Apocalypse and Collapsing Consciously
 
“Few evolutionary catalysts see the nexus between local food systems and deep cultural transformation with the clarity of Michael Brownlee. Want to find the connections between Thomas Paine, Christopher Alexander, and the organic farmer down the street? They are here for you in this book.”
—Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money and author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
 
 “As humankind moves towards an uncertain future facing issues related to climate change, water quantity/quality, healthy soil for food production, and more food-resilient communities, The Local Food Revolution provides a road map for those brave enough to embark on its bold manifesto. An early food system pioneer who catalyzed evolutionary change and helped revolutionize the future of local food for Colorado, Michael Brownlee provides a direct and biting reflection on what it will take to revolutionize our loc…