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Chris Smaje Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future (Paperback)
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- Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future : The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
- Publication Name
- Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future
- Title
- Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future
- Subtitle
- The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured F
- Contributor
- Sarah Langford (Foreword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1915294169
- EAN
- 9781915294166
- ISBN
- 9781915294166
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Pharmacy Publishing UK LTD
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Social Science
- Topic
- Future Studies, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 29/06/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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"Everyone in the food business needs to read this book. . . . [A] lively and superbly written polemic."--Joel Salatin, co-founder of Polyface Farm A defense of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of an industrialized future. One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot's vision for an urban and industrialized future. Responding to Monbiot's portrayal of an urban, high-energy, industrially manufactured food future as the answer to our current crises, and its unchallenged acceptance within the environmental discourse, Smaje was compelled to challenge Monbiot's evidence and conclusions. At the same time, Smaje presents his powerful counterargument - a low-carbon agrarian localism that puts power in the hands of local communities, not high-tech corporates. In the ongoing fight for our food future, this book will help you to understand the difference between a congenial, ecological living and a dystopian, factory-centered existence. A must-read! "Chris Smaje has laid down an indictment - as unremitting as it is undeniable - that cuts through the jargon-filled, techno-worshipping agricultural futurists who promise silver-bullet fixes for having your cake and eating it too. This brilliant and compelling book is at once hopeful and persuasive about the future of food."--Dan Barber, chef at Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate
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Chelsea Green Pharmacy Publishing UK LTD
ISBN-10
1915294169
ISBN-13
9781915294166
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Book Title
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future : The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Future Studies, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages
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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
20 oz
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'Chris Smaje is a powerful, humane and practical thinker on our relationship to land and farming, and this book offers a convincing rejection of the 'ecomodern' theology currently being promoted by many prominent environmentalists. In a time of division, Smaje offers a human-scale and heartening alternative to elite green technocracy.' Paul Kingsnorth, author of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, 'Chris Smaje shows us that it is people, working in communities and in tune with their local environment, who can provide answers to our food, energy and climate questions. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Chris has written an intelligent and absorbing analysis of a complex problem, and one that should be essential reading for us all.' Hunter Lovins, founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions and author of A Finer Future, 'Chris Smaje has laid down an indictment - as unremitting as it is undeniable - that cuts through the jargon-filled, techno-worshipping agricultural futurists who promise silver-bullet fixes for having your cake and eating it too. This brilliant and compelling book is at once hopeful and persuasive about the future of food.' Dan Barber, chef at Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate, 'A thought-provoking, intelligent response to George Monbiot's Regenesis. As the author remarks, this is a provocation to thought rather than a summation of the truth. Setting out the principles of good agriculture that can have benefits to people, land and nature. A case for a rural agricultural landscape that delivers food without wrecking the planet. Agrarian localism as an alternative that may succeed given present challenges on alternative land use.' Jake Fiennes, author of Land Healer, 'This book is the much-needed antidote to the crazy excesses of ecomodernism in all its guises. A paean to sanity and to humanity's reconnection with the living planet, this is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we can move beyond the industrial paradigm to something that is actually regenerative; for anyone who wants to know how we can feed ourselves without recourse to fantasy fuel sources or further empowerment of the see-want-take value systems pushed by the multinationals and their outriders. It's essential reading, really, for anyone who eats, but most especially for farmers and growers and anyone involved in the creation of policy, at whatever level.' Manda Scott, author of the Boudica: Dreaming series and host of the Accidental Gods podcast, 'Chris Smaje's devastating critique of the farm-free future projected by ecomodernists is also an intriguing forecast of what Lewis Mumford in The City in History called the 'end of the megalopolitan cycle', and an eloquent appeal for reruralisation.' Simon Fairlie, author of Going to Seed, 'An eloquent and articulate defense of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of an industrialized future, Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods by Chris Smaje is critically important reading for anyone with an interest in learning about the difference between a congenial, ecological living and a dystopian, factory-centered existence. While especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Sustainable Agriculture collections and supplemental Environmental Economics curriculum studies lists.' Midwest Book Review, 'Chris Smaje's Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future is a timely response to those who are constructing a dystopia of farms without farmers, food without farms, while promoting more industrialisation of the food system. Farming with care on a small scale is the path of ecological regeneration and returning to the earth. Thank you, Chris, for writing this important book for all of us.' Vandana Shiva, activist and author of Terra Viva, 'Chris Smaje provides a comprehensive and reasoned counter to George Monbiot's Regenesis, politely demolishing Monbiot's ecologically naïve belief that urban dwellers can subsist on food manufactured by corporations, presumably without the use of fossil fuel energy. Smaje's deeper, more global coverage of the social, cultural, economic and environmental realities of the agricultural dilemma raises issues that no one can afford to ignore. Without agriculture, we cannot have an orchestra, church, economy, city or any business. It is the foundation of civilisation under global threat of climate change.' Allan Savory, author of Holistic Management, 'Chris Smaje has long been a powerful, humane and practical thinker on our relationship to land and farming. This book is a powerful, well-argued and convincing rejection of the 'ecomodern' theology currently being promoted by leading British greens. In a time of great division, Smaje offers a human-scale and heartfelt alternative to elite green technocracy.' Paul Kingsnorth, author of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, 'We are heading to hell in a techcart driven by the unlikely twins of Extremist Rewilding and Big Food; if we don't pull on the brakes sharpish, our countryside will be reduced to a monoculture of lynxy scrub and our food grown in vats. If you want real food, food security and a truly biodiverse countryside, please, please read this book.' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland, 'Everyone in the food business needs to read this book. If you think the future rests in time-tested local authenticity, Smaje's arguments sound like affirming angels. If you think the future lies in techno-sophisticated urban manufacturing plants, you owe it to yourself to learn the best arguments from the opposing view. For many of us in the local authentic food space, George Monbiot is our nemesis in the public debate of food's future. Will it be local, democratised and heritage driven, or will it be manufactured by techno-sophisticates suddenly converted to humble, charitable ends? Smaje cuts precisely and directly, eviscerating Monbiot with superb and quotable verbalese. Never have I enjoyed reading a blow-by-blow narrative as much as this lively and superbly written polemic.' Joel Salatin, co-founder of Polyface Farm, and author of You Can Farm and Polyface Micro, 'This is a much-needed book - and Chris Smaje is exactly the person to write it. He builds his case with care and humility, highlighting the gaps in the evidence used by advocates of a 'farm-free' future, but also bringing into view the assumptions that are hidden behind their loud insistence that 'you can't argue with arithmetic'. For anyone disoriented by the ecomodernist turn in environmentalism, this is a book that will help you find your bearings.' Dougald Hine, author of At Work in the Ruins
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