num_pages: 288
description: In a groundbreaking debut farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organising society around small-scale farming offers the soundest sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation--and will yield humanity's best chance at survival.Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines A Small Farm Future analyses the complex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how low-carbon locally self-reliant agrarian communities can empower us to successfully confront these changes head on; and explores the pathways for delivering this vision politically.Challenging both conventional wisdom and utopian blueprints A Small Farm Future offers rigorous original analysis of wicked problems and hidden opportunities in a way that illuminates the path toward functional local economies effective self-provisioning agricultural diversity and a shared earth.
language: English
title: A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth
publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company