The urgent case put forward for critical issues in food production and consumption

This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.

How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and wellbeing of animals, people and the planet. This book explores how to transform our food systems, incorporating different approaches and perspectives. Chapters explore the ways in which feeding a growing population is impacting climate change, biodiversity loss, the welfare of animals and the health of many of the people on the planet. Authors propose tangible routes in policy and practice that can effect real-world change.

Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets Book

Co-edited by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna of Compassion in World Farming, chapters explore topics including the opportunity of agrifood systems transformation in accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals, the role of food systems transformation in preventing pandemics and why our children’s future depends on a global agreement on food, climate and animal welfare.

Reviews 

This must read book emphasises the importance of regenerative farming, agroforestry and  permaculture.  These methods of farming work with rather than against nature, restore biodiversity, help to and slow down climate change.  They can become truly sustainable and feed us for generations to come. 

Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder - the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace.

If Earth is to have a future, humans will need to live differently within the web of life that feeds us ….The keys to tomorrow’s plates are in this wide-ranging, challenging, surprising, and ultimately hopeful collection of some of the planet’s finest thinkers on the future of food.

Raj Patel, author, film-maker and academic.

This inspiring book cuts through so much of today's wretched jargon about regenerative farming, and tells it as it is: it's impossible to regenerate agriculture today without significantly reducing meat consumption.

Jonathon Porritt, campaigner and author

Information for media

Press release regarding Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets can be read here 

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