The Land Issue 13 Winter 2012-13
| COMMENT |
| An Appetite for Insurrection |
| Free to be Deluded |
| The Two-Pronged Fork |
| Welcome La Via Campesina |
| Mud and Ashes |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
| GM labelling in the USA; Défense Paysanne; Hastings Road Protest; UK Food Securoty Summit; Good Food March to Brussels; LVT Private Member's Bill; Agricultural Minimum Wage abolished; Hay becomes a Commodity; Licence to Drill. |
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| REVIEW ARTICLE |
| Green Conservatism |
| Mike Hannis finds Roger Scruton still regretting the French Revolution. |
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| LAND GRABS |
| Enclosure on the Grand Scale |
| The similarities between landgrabbing and the enclosure of English Commons. |
| Assault on Peasantry |
| Food security is the ideological pretext for an attack on food sovereignty. |
| Why the Rush? |
| Tania Murray Li explores the discourse behind the land bonanza. |
| Journey through Sugarland |
| Fred Pearce’s quest for the bitter truth behind this favourite indulgence. |
| The Aftermath of an SEZ |
| Michael Levien documents the impacts of an Indian land grab on a rural economy. |
| CAP in Hand |
| Ed Hamer explains how farm subsidies lead to land concentration. |
| Land and Power in Scotland |
| Andy Wightman reveals how an ancient scam has survived so long. |
| Per Ardua Cadastre |
| Long-suppressed registers of landowners are being dragged back into the light. |
| What William Wrought. |
| Paul Kingsnorth uncovers the story of resistance to the Norman landgrab. |
| The First Green Guerrillas |
| Paul Kingsnorth reinterprets the Green Men. |
| Better a Bagger than a Grabber |
| Squat your own plot and get digging, urges Gill Barron. |
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| FARMING |
| Dairy Miles |
| Simon Fairlie examines the distribution problems of large dairy farms, and the benefits of small ones. |
| Fertility Farm Revisited |
| Pioneer livestock farmer Frank Newman Turner’s experiments still excite Graham Harvey. |
| Wwoof’s Green Shoots |
| Gill Barron celebrates a new generation of willing workers on the land. |
| The Return of Farm Service |
| Simon Fairlie inspects an old farmworkers’ contract, and finds it still good. |
| ICBINO responses |
| Feedback on the organic labelling controversy from Tim Deane. The Land replies. |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Best Kept for a Few |
| The new best practice guide for One Planet Development in Wales. |
| Four Year Rule Under Attack |
| More problems for people building surreptitious shacks. |
| All Change for the NPPF |
| We’re still trying to work out what the National Planning Policy Framework entails. |
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