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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

David Montgomery

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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

Growing a Revolution was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. For centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster for the world's growing population. In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health. From Kansas to Ghana, he sees why adopting the three tenets of conservation agriculture—ditching the plow, planting cover crops, and growing a diversity of crops—is the solution. When farmers restore fertility to the land, this helps feed the world, cool the planet, reduce pollution, and return profitability to family farms.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9780393356090
Genre
Science & Technology
Topics
Soil health and conservationSustainable agricultureFood security

Other awarded books from David Montgomery

  • The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925

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