Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet

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 u...