The Land Issue 12 Summer 2012
| COMMENT |
| The Future 'We' Want |
| The Rothamsted GM Debate |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
| Action on Land Grabs; Farmers on the Streets in Berlin: Occupy the Wilderness; ACTA |
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| A LIVING ON THE LAND |
| I Can't Believe It's Not Organic |
| A new DIY producers' association is germinating. |
| Little Black Tractor |
| Imagining a saner future where it's the chemical-mongers who get labelled... |
| The ‘O’ Word - Use It Or Lose It |
| Phil Sumption reports on current affairs in the Organic world. |
| The Small Farmer Speaks |
| Lynn Miller calls for an agricultural renaissance, small time. |
| The Vegetarian Pig |
| Local waste problems could be solved in your back yard, says Gill Barron |
| Parkinson’s Law of the Countryside |
| A classic look at the rural-urban divide. In 32 years, has anything changed? |
| Return of the Gangmasters |
| They’ve always been bad news, as Philip Conford and Jeremy Burchardt explain. |
| Can Britain Farm Itself? |
| Ed Hamer asks the Big Questions |
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| PRACTICAL EDUCATION |
| Beyond Attachment Parenting |
| Education is more than 9 to 5 school, says Jennifer Stoady. |
| The Child’s Right to Work |
| Learning to make a living is important too. |
| Growing Up Dystechnic |
| Simon Fairlie explains why a new skills-based curriculum would be handy. |
| Geography of the Egocentric |
| The Earth doesn’t revolve around humanity. Simon Fairlie pays his respects. |
| Hands, Heart, Head |
| Celebrating a book which puts a spanner in the cerebral works. |
| A Hammer and a Horse |
| A traveller discusses the pros and cons of extramural education. |
| Of Daffodils and Farmers |
| Teaching young farmers to appreciate poetry is an eye-opener, says Charlotte Fairlie. |
| Ask a Better Question |
| Annkatrin Hendry looks at the How and What of school systems. |
| Playground Robbery |
| Nigel Gann exposes a Government land-grab. |
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| Offsetting Nature? |
| Mike Hannis and Sian Sullivan examine the ideas behind DEFRA’s habitat banking scheme. |
| Reversing Beeching’s Legacy |
| Daniel Casey asks why all the little railways don’t join up. |
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| SPORTS PAGES |
| Three Yawns for the Olympics |
| For most people, the Olympics are just not sporting. Gill Barron expostulates. |
| Lord Golf’s Estates |
| The Ornamental Hermit on how sport holds the fort for a secret landowner. |
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| The Feedback Loop |
| Readers respond to ‘The Future of our Forests’ |
| The Legalities of Buying Land |
| Cathy Ashley explains why solicitors might be useful after all. |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Thirty Eight Words |
| What will the National Policy Planning Framework mean for low impact development? |
| Appeals and Planning decisions; Squatting update |
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