Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone's needs, and despite great progress in increasing productivity, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. This book describes a different form of agriculture: one founded more on ecological principles and which is also more harmonious with people and their cultures.

Part 1: Agrarian and Rural Perspectives * The Post-War Task * Thinking Like a Mountain * The Unsettling of America * Ecological Literacy * An Amish Perspective * Becoming Native to this Place * Creating Social Capital * Part 2: Agroecological Perspectives * Reality Cheques* The External Costs of Agricultural Production in the United States* From Pesticides to People: Improving Ecosystem Health in the Northern Andes * Agroecology and Agroecosystems * The Doubly Green Revolution * Part 3: Social Perspectives * Reversals, Institutions and Change * The Hawkesbury Experience: Tales from a Road Less Travelled * Social Capital and the Collective Management of Resources * Gateway to the Global Garden: Beta/Gamma Science for Dealing with Ecological Rationality * Ecological Basis for Low-toxicity Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Rice * Part 4: Perspectives from Industrialized Countries * Landscapes Lost and Found * The Farm as Natural Habitat * Diet and Health: Diseases and Food * Coming in to the Foodshed * Part 5: Perspectives from Developing Countries * Rethinking Agriculture For New Opportunities * Soil Recuperation in Central America: How Innovation was Sustained after Project Intervention * Sustainable Rural Life and Agroecology, Santa Catarina State, Brazil * Lessons of Cuban Resistance * Benefits from Agroforestry in Africa, with Examples from Kenya and Zambia * Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries *