Six Steps Back to the Land

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. Hes 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 *

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.

Acknowledgements Author's preface The road to enlightened agriculture Agroecology The agrarian renaissance Epilogue: the agrarian renaissance and the Real Farming Trust Resources Index