Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks (Food, Health, and the Environment) - Softcover

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.

--Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University

--David Runsten, UCLA School of Public Affairs, Executive Director, Community Alliance with Family Farmers

" 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, 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

& quot; 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.& quot; -- David Runsten, UCLA School of Public Affairs, Executive Director, Community Alliance with Family Farmers

& quot; 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.& quot; -- Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University

"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"

"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, 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 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