| COMMENT |
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| Facing up to Fracking |
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| Land Reform in Sight |
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| No Milk Today |
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| Adios Streetlights, Starlight Hello |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
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| Year of the Family Farm - No Subsidies for Smallholders under Twelve Acres - Fracking in England and Romania - NFU Betrays Bees - Banks Bulldoze Borneo - TTIP - Tesco - Cattle on the Common - Food Waste - Oxford Farming Conferences |
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| From Bad to Worse |
| Coal-fired power stations are switching to imported wood pellets. Mike Hannis questions the outcome. |
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| Money Makes the Earth Move |
| Who will bail out the Spanish gas storage cock-up? ask Elena Gerebizza and Xavier Sol. |
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| Unnatural Capital |
| Allocating a financial value to nature paves the way for increased development, argues Mike Hannis. |
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| AGRICULTURE |
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| Seeds of Resistance |
| Ed Hamer explains how EU legislation threatens seed sovereignty. |
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| Swill, Swine Fever and Slaughter |
| The threat of disease is being used to eliminate backyard farmers. Simon Fairlie reports. |
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| 40,000 Cow Megadairy on Indian Gigafarm |
| The shape of things to come in India? |
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| Livestock’s Shadow Shortened |
| The FAO retracts its estimate that 18 per cent of global warming comes from livestock. |
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| FEEDBACK |
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| Peasants, Food Sovereignty and The Landworkers’ Alliance |
| ... defended by Chris Smaje. |
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| Permaculture Looks in the Mirror |
| Responses to articles in issue 14. |
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| Can Arable be Permacultural? |
| Federico Filippi does the experiments. |
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| FEATURES |
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| Selling the Silver |
| The enclosure of UK fisheries by the quota system is analysed by Emma Cardwell. |
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| Securing Land for Farmers |
| Neil Ravenscroft examines what the UK can learn from Terre de Liens in France. |
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| How Co-ops get Carpet-Bagged |
| Donal O’Driscoll looks at the weaknesses and strengths of housing co-ops. |
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| The Scandal of Ireby Fell. |
| Landgrabbers and the Land Registry in cahoots? Gill Barron reports. |
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| THE READING SEASON |
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| Obituaries - Great Writers on Land Issues |
| Elaine Morgan, Joan Thirsk and Alfred Russel Wallace. |
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| Robert Kett and the Norfolk Rising |
| Gill Barron uncovers the story of a long-maligned revolutionary. |
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| Building the Green Valley |
| Re-enacting ancient farming systems is hard slog, finds Gill Barron. |
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| A Deep Green Resistance |
| Adam Herriot introduces a book that seeks to inspire a movement. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
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| Another Hand-Out to the Gentry |
| Should change of use from barn to dwelling be permitted development? |
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| One Planet Council |
| One Planet Developers gird their loins. |
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| View from England |
| Simon Fairlie considers whether low impact development is easier in Wales or in England. |
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| And a Small Cabin Build There |
| A court case sends shock waves through the Irish planning system. |
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| Will Fortune’s Case Favour the Brave? |
| Davis Mooney and Eileen Flanagan on Wicklow CC v Fortune. |
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| Housing Scrapbook |
| Homelessness is a crime in many US cities. Will that approach spread to Europe/ |
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| Fairways and Foul |
| An unnecessary golf course is rebuffed by an inspired paragraph of case law. |
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| Happy Ending to a Sorry Tale |
| Hopefully we conclude our 15 year coverage of the Morlands site at Glastonbury. |
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