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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.



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Michael Brownlee

A leader in food localization efforts since 2006, Michael Brownlee is the author of Reclaiming the Future: How to Lead the Local Food Revolution in Your Community (Difference Press, 2018) and The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself in Uncertain Times (North Atlantic Books, 2016) . With partner Lynette Marie Hanthorn, he is also the co-creator of the Local Food Academy, a online training and support program for emerging foodshed catalysts. Together they created the online Local Food Summit (Aug. 2017) , featuring more than 90 pre-recorded presentations and interviews from leaders at the front lines of the local food movement in the U.S. and around the globe. They are founding partners in Local Food Catalysts LLC, an online media and events company supporting the unfolding local food revolution. Michael and Lynette Marie were co-founders of Boulder-based Local Food Shift Group (formerly known as Transition Colorado, the first officially-recognized Transition Initiative in North America) , a non-profit organization building community resilience and self-reliance through localizing the food supply.



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