By Ben Raskin, The Soil Association
Written for farmers and advisors this book will help you assess the potential business benefits of agroforestry for your farm or client and to understand the possible benefits to the wider environment.
Food, Farming, and Countryside Commission
The actions we take in the next ten years, to stop ecosystems collapse, to recover and regenerate nature and to restore people’s health and wellbeing are now critical. In this final report, the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission sets out radical and practical ways for policymakers, business and communities to respond to the challenges.
By Charles Massy, Chelsea Green
It is the story of how a grassroots revolution—a true underground insurgency—can save the planet, help reduce and reverse climate change, and build healthy people and healthy communities, pivoting significantly on our relationship with growing and consuming food.
By Mathew Lawrence, Common Wealth
Tinkering at the margins of an economic model driving environmental breakdown is guaranteed to deepen the climate emergency. To thrive, only a systemic response to a systems crisis will do. We need a UK Green New Deal to rapidly and justly decarbonise our society.
By Helena Norberg-Hodge
Distilling the wisdom gleaned from four decades of activism and direct experience in both the global North and South, Helena lucidly deconstructs the old narrative of ‘progress’ through technological advance and corporate growth, while presenting a concise and compelling case for economic localization.
Fibershed
Our clothes shouldn’t come at the cost of people or planet. By connecting with your fibershed, you are invited to get to know a geographic designation that provides your natural fiber and dye resources and therefore presents a consumption boundary too.
By Susan Utell, Bo Boudart, Bullfrog Films
Marine toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott, who helped fishing communities hit by the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills, creates a civics course to help young activists become effective.
By Chris Johnstone, Little, Brown Book Group
This engaging, practical book draws together scientific understanding, real life examples and proven methods in describing how you can develop seven essential skills that help your resilience grow.
By Bill McKibben, Palgrave Macmillan
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Local Futures
This short film introduces the issue to a broad audience in a catchy, humorous way, and a detailed factsheet covers the extent and harm of insane trade in greater depth and encourages people to take positive action towards supporting local economies.
By David R. Montgomery, W.W. Norton
In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health.
By Xavier Poux, Pierre-Marie Aubert, IDDRI
Jointly addressing the challenges of ensuring sustainable food for Europeans, protecting biodiversity and natural resources, and mitigating climate change calls for a profound transition in our agri-food system.
By Jason Bradford, Post Carbon Institute
The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world.
By Gary Paul Nabhan, Island Press
In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the stories of diverse communities who are getting their hands dirty and bringing back North America's unique fare: bison, sturgeon, camas lilies, ancient grains, turkeys, and more.
By Peter A. Victor, Edward Elgar Publishing
Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet.
By Barbara Hachipuka Banda, Oxford Real Farming Conference
In 2004, Shumei International partnered with the Mbabala Women Farmers’ Co- Operative Union to introduce Natural Agriculture in Zambia.
By Fred Provenza, Chelsea Green
In Nourishment Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body’s nutritional and medicinal needs.
By Kai Kuhnhenn, Heinrich Boell Stiftung
Climate change mitigation scenarios are important instruments for developing pathways towards a climate-friendly world. They form the basis for political and social negotiations regarding the climate protection measures to be adopted.
By Matthieu Auzanneau, Chelsea Green
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over.
By Michael Hudson, Islet
In …and forgive them their debts, renowned professor of economics, Michael Hudson – and one of the few who could see the 2008 financial crisis coming – takes us on an epic journey through the economies of ancient civilizations.
Bullfrog Films
Looks at the influential work of David Fleming, who dared to re-imagine a thriving civilization after the collapse of our current mainstream economies and inspired the Transition Towns movement.
RARE
During the UN-led Convention on Biological Diversity - Conference of the Parties (CBD COP) in 2018, a new report was released of 338 community-based solutions to help farmers and other agricultural practitioners adopt ecologically-friendly practices that protect biodiversity.