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. - toiled year after year, only to find that modern industrial agriculture was turning on itself. The very farming practices they used yesterday were making it more difficult to grow food today. Industrial agriculture's effects on our climate and environment were worsening, until the very families growing the world's food were starving. Some of these farmers took a gamble and changed their practices to work with nature rather than bending it to their will. They taught their communities by example that regenerative farming methods paid off - both in nourishing their families and in bringing their land back to life.

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. Award-winning author and journalist Roger Thurow shares their stories, highlighting the conflict inherent in our most important human endeavor: that 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.