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Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet Paperback – August 13, 2024

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When famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary—and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.

Farmers in some of the world’s oldest agricultural areas—Africa’s Great Rift Valley, India’s Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Highlands of Central America, and the Great Plains of the U.S.—were toiling year after year, only to find that modern industrial agriculture was turning on itself. The very practices that they were using to grow food yesterday were making it more difficult to grow food today. Pesticides used to protect their crops were killing off beneficial biodiversity. Monocropping was depleting the soil of necessary nutrients. And deforestation was making the land hotter and drier. Industrial agriculture’s effects on our climate and environment were multiplying and worsening, until the very families growing the world’s food were starving.

But some of these farmers took a gamble and changed their practices to work with nature rather than bending nature to their will. They terraced the land to catch more rainwater and prevent soil runoff; they planted a diverse range of vegetables that would balance the nutrients in the soil; they replaced commercial fertilizers with organic matter from their own farms; they planted more trees and drought-resistant grains; and, perhaps most importantly, they taught their communities by example that these regenerative farming methods paid off—both in nourishing their families and in bringing their land back to life.

Award-winning author and journalist Roger Thurow has traveled to Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, India, Guatemala, Peru, and the United States to share their stories, highlighting the conflicts inherent in our most important human endeavor: feeding the world using the methods of industrial agriculture is stripping the land of its ability to feed future generations. But, as Thurow points out, these farmers are starting a new kind of revolution, nourishing both humans and the land, and following their lead could help us solve one of the great crises of our time.

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Roger Thurow is a journalist and author who writes about the persistence of hunger and malnutrition in our world as well as global agriculture and food policy. He was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal for thirty years. He is, with Scott Kilman, the author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, which won the Harry Chapin WhyHunger book award, as well as two other books on world hunger. He is a recipient of Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. He and his wife Anne live in Auburn, Alabama, where he is a scholar-in-residence at Auburn University’s Hunger Solutions Institute. 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Agate Surrey
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 13, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1572843403
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1572843400
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #1,015,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Roger Thurow is a journalist and author who writes about the persistence of hunger and malnutrition in our world, as well as global agriculture and food policy. He was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for thirty years, including twenty years as a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. His coverage of global affairs spanned the final decade of the Cold War, the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany, the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the humanitarian crises of the first decade of this century – along with 10 Olympic Games.

In 2003, he and Journal colleague Scott Kilman wrote a series of stories on famine in Africa that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. The series, Anatomy of Famine, was praised by the Pulitzer board for “haunting stories that shed new light on starvation in Africa and prompted international agencies to rethink their policies.” Their reporting on humanitarian and development issues was also honored by the United Nations. Thurow and Kilman are authors of the book, ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. In 2009, they were awarded Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. They also received the 2009 Harry Chapin WhyHunger book award. Enough was also a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award.

In May 2012, Thurow published his second book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change. His third book, The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children – And the World, was published in May 2016.

Thurow’s most recent book, published in August 2024, is Against The Grain – How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet.

Roger Thurow has also been a senior fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, as well as a Scholar-in-Residence at Auburn University’s Hunger Solutions Institute.

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  • Kailey Griffith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important read
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2024
    Format: Paperback
    In his latest book, journalist and author Roger Thurow manages to do the impossible: provide us with hope. Even more impressively, he does so without shying away from the dismal reality of our current state of environmental peril and widespread food insecurity. “Against the Grain” highlights the stories of farmers who’ve seen firsthand the costs of our current agricultural system, and are now working to change the tides of malnutrition and environmental degradation. By uplifting and celebrating the voices and innovations of small holder and indigenous farmers, he shows us that the path to healing the planet is already laid out before us- if we’re willing to listen. It’s a damning testament against the world’s current model of industrialized monoculture and a documentation of the latest promising advancements in regenerative farming, all grounded in the first hand experience of farmers and families at the frontlines of this new agricultural revolution. This is no manifesto constructed out of wishful thinking, but a spotlight directing us to pay attention to the real world success stories taking place at this very moment, in multiple regions all around the world.
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  • HikerMan
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Great and Important Book...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
    Format: Paperback
    Roger Thurow is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has led the way in reporting on world hunger and the agricultural revolutions that have been attempting to address it. This is an interesting and important read about what's being billed as the "restorative agriculture movement"--that is, an attempt to move Big Ag (and small farmers) away from a heavy regimen of pesticides and fertilizers to a more earth-friendly and sustainable model and still feed the earth. Thurow basically circled the globe gathering clear, compelling, thoughtful and provocative voices and examples of people in the forefront of this. I closed the book wondering "Why isn't everybody doing this?" And lest you think this book is 'medicine' Thurow is a fine stylist who brings these stories to glorious life in the manner of the great WSJ feature writers of the past. It's a great read--check it out!
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