Acknowledgements Author's preface The road to enlightened agriculture Agroecology The agrarian renaissance Epilogue: the agrarian renaissance and the Real Farming Trust Resources Index
Drawing on his years of experience working in the farming industry, Colin Tudge shows us why we need a renaissance in our approach to agriculture, and how we can get it started.
Colin Tudge is a biologist, science writer and author, who has a passion for food and agriculture. His previous books include Why Genes Are Not Selfish, The Secret Life of Trees and The Secret Life of Birds. Now a freelance writer, Colin has worked with Farmers' Weekly, New Scientist and BBC Radio 3. He has a passion for food and agriculture, and is closely involved with the Campaign for Real Farming and the Funding Enlightened Agriculture network, which support SMEs in the sustainable food and farming sector.
This book spells out the steps by which we might be able to get out
from under the dominance of the Corporations and the ‘big is best’
mentality, and restore a farming which will feed 10 billion without
poisoning the landscape, killing the bees, or turning farmers into
serfs. If we want a peaceful and prosperous future, nothing could
be more important. Read it, and then get involved!
*Tim Gorringe, Emeritus Professor of Theology*
In his wonderfully accessible style, Colin Tudge gathers together
his increasingly well-honed arguments about society's miss-directed
development of agriculture. This provides the background for
illuminating six solid, safe steps in a direction that could
diminish simultaneously the major problems of the past while
sustaining a happier, healthier and more equitable future for
agriculture and thus for society as a whole.
*Professor Martin Wolfe, Wakelyns Agroforestry*
Colin Tudge is one of those remarkable people who challenges
orthodoxies by thinking outside of the box. He’s earned his place
in the history of the food culture of this country as a real change
maker.
*Patrick Holden, Sustainble Food Trust*
This book is an eye opener as to the realities lying behind
high-level exhortations about 'feeding the world' and reveals how
the path we are on is more about the interests of powerful elites,
rather than the people eating the food.
*Tony Juniper, author of What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?*
Colin Tudge offers a welcome perspective at a time when so much of
the dialogue about food and farming is framed against a backdrop of
fear... Six Steps Back to the Land sets out a renaissance, a future
shaped not by fear but by understanding.
*John Turner, farmer and co-founder of the Pasture-Fed Livestock
Association*
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