Nice Blog on Water and Agriculture. Resilience by design. This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog's month-long series on Resilience. Since the Green Revolution, we've been relying heavily on a strategy to control variability in agricultural systems, as we strive to minimize agricultural nuisances such as soil infertility, pest impacts, and inadequate precipitation through the use of chemicals and irrigation. This has won us some major successes in increasing yields, but at high cost to the many other benefits provided in and by agricultural landscapes.