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JUST ANNOUNCED: 2017 NAUTILUS AWARD WINNER for the Ecology and Environment Category! 50 trees are planted for each book sold! Drawing on fifteen years of humanitarian work with communities on the verge of collapse, John Leary conveys how restoring agricultural lands with a diverse combination of trees and crops is the answer to reversing desertification, water scarcity, hunger, poverty, climate change and forced migration. ONE Shot: Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival provides a compelling look at the state of the world’s agriculture and its evolving impact on people and the environment. ONE Shot takes readers on an evolving journey from the peanut fields of Africa to the corn fields of America; connecting seven of the world’s most pressing challenges to farming practices, and offering the revival of forest gardens as a core agricultural solution. In the coming decades, we have One Shot to work together to rebuild our dying food systems and ecosystems. Discover how trees are our last chance for survival. For more information go to: www.trees.org

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April 4, 2017
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John Leary is the Executive Director of Trees for the Future where he is focused on helping end hunger and extreme poverty for rural African farmers, through the revival of the forest garden. John has extensive experience living among the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa and deep knowledge of international agricultural development. He speaks three languages and has lived and worked in thirteen developing countries. John has dedicated his life to creating innovative training approaches that empower farmers to rise out of poverty, including award winning programs that are currently in use throughout the developing world.
With ONE Shot: Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival John opens people's hearts and introduces them to an in-depth understanding of TREES' mission and what they are doing to alleviate poverty and hunger globally. It helps the reader discover why trees are our ONE Shot for rebuilding our food systems and ecosystems. For more information go to: trees.org

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Trees for the Future; 1st Edition (April 4, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0998784508
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0998784502
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.65 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches

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John Leary is the Executive Director of Trees for the Future where he is focused on helping end hunger and extreme poverty for rural African farmers, through the revival of the forest garden. John has extensive experience living among the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa and deep knowledge of international agricultural development. He speaks three languages and has lived and worked in thirteen developing countries. John has dedicated his life to creating innovative training approaches that empower farmers to rise out of poverty, including award winning programs that are currently in use throughout the developing world.

With ONE Shot: Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival John opens people’s hearts and introduces them to an in-depth understanding of TREES’ mission and what they are doing to alleviate poverty and hunger globally. It helps the reader discover why trees are our ONE Shot for rebuilding our food systems and ecosystems. For more information go to: www.trees.org

John is a 2017 NAUTILUS AWARD WINNER for the Ecology and Environment Category.

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Malve von Hassell

Compelling and inspiring account of a plan for a sustainable future

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2020

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John Leary takes the reader on a sweeping journey across the history and landscape of food production, patterns of consumption, industrialized agriculture, and monocropping and contrasts this with an alternative that is sustainable and achievable. Moreover, he shows how much has already been accomplished at the local level in various African nations where farmers are taught to implement a form of agriculture around so-called forest gardens. Many of his stories, concrete, specific, and detailed, are based on his own experiences in working first in the Peace Corps and subsequently for an organization called Trees for the Future. He points out that often the public becomes deadened to statistics about malnutrition and hunger never mind how horrifying these may be; but once you put names and faces to these statistics, the excruciating reality is brought home, underscoring the need for action, the "One Shot" that we have to build a sustainable future. Leary compelling demonstrates the linkages between malnutrition, poverty, water shortages, climate change, and patterns of migration which affect not only individual countries but the planet as a whole. The book is well written. It leaves the reader in no doubt about the enormity of the challenges ahead, and at the same time it inspires hope. Highly recommended.

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Brandy Eisenbart

My favorite chapter was Chapter 6 - Written in Stone

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 18, 2017

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I have been following the work of Trees for the Future for almost a decade and I was curious to see how they tied tree planting to the state of the world's agriculture. This was a surprising and interesting read. The author gives a historical context to the interwoven social and environmental problems we see today. He uses personal stories and the stories of others to make the information interesting and relatable. His statements are well documented and leave me wanting to discover more. I have read several environmental books on the topics of water, deforestation and rural to urban migration, but this is the first account I've seen that ties all these issues together and shows how destructive agriculture systems are the underlying problem. My favorite chapter was Chapter 6 - Written in Stone, where the author details all the ways we are destroying biodiversity and how the story of these deeds is being slowly and silently written in the sediments that become rock. "Rock doesn't lie," he states. I found this a compelling way to think of deforestation, air pollution and species extinction, as something we can't cover up or hide. The book ends with a call to action that made me consider what I was buying at the supermarket last night. I would recommend this book as an interesting read for anyone who wants to understand how what they eat is directly tied to the social and environmental problems that fill our news headlines.

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Susan Schluederberg

A Hope-filled Method to Heal the World

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2018

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Great book. He discusses the FOREST GARDEN Method of creating soil-nourishing, animal-proof family and community gardens that produce 12 months of cash crops and family food. The author shows how this provides food stability and stops the abandonment of the land. Soil exhaustion from repeated years of Mono-cropping causes people to leave their land and migrate to crowded, ill planned third world cities. Social unrest and crime results from these mass migrations. The FOREST GARDEN method keeps families on their land and gives them food security plus income.

Most hopeful thing I have read in a long while! Many friends also read the book and we had the author come and do a presentation on the material.

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Ted-33

An important book. Should be ready by many of different interests.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2017

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Silver bullet solutions are hard to find. What benefits a few often hurts many. Unfortunately, modern agricultural practices have too often been examples of this inequity with the poorest being hit the hardest. This text offers insights into how we got into our current situation of farmers not being able to feed themselves as well as how a different approach using forest gardens can dramatically change a family's future. Implications reach farmers in both the developed and developing world. A good read for anyone interested in farming, conservation, and the future of life on Earth. Forest gardens are about as close to a silver bullet solution to stopping the threat of hunger, erosion, poverty and more.

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Intelligent and compelling argument

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2017

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In “One Shot” John Leary presents an intelligent and compelling argument for agricultural reform. He begins with a basic irony of past and current agro policies: greater food production inevitably leads to less food production, and greater environmental damage. He offers an alternative approach which moves away from single crop production to smaller farms producing a sustainable mix of trees and diverse plants, bordered by a “living fence.” The book includes many examples of success and failure based on years of direct work with small farmers in Senegal and other Sub Saharan Africa countries.

I highly recommend this book. It’s a fun and enlightening read.

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Eat like you mean it:)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2019

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"There are a thousand hacking at thebranches of evil to one who is striking at theroot, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve."
John Leary asks us to soar like eagles, and to eat with purpose to transcend Thoreau's criticism of hypocritical philanthropy.
Focus on eating organically, locally and sustainably. Promote the Forest Garden!

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Leslie

Readable, Compelling, Well-Researched

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2017

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Previous reviews summarize the book nicely. I just want to add, thank heavens I had this book with me while I was stuck on a bus for 6 hours! I have read several books about agriculture, our food choices, and how they affect climate change in particular. This book updated my previous knowledge and was readable, compelling, and well-researched. The concept and creation of forest gardens is fascinating. Leary's description of the hunger so many families face in Africa (and that he shared while in the Peace Corp) made me understand in a more visceral way than I ever have before.

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Mr I B Paul

Content 5, proofreading 3, overall 4

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 9, 2017

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Good content and I read it eagerly. My one gripe is the annoying number of proofreading errors and spelling errors. These had me tutting in places. I am an English teacher and part-time proofreader though.

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