| COMMENT |
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| Land Registry: Data For Sale |
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| Snorkels at Dawn |
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| Frankenflesh |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
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| Scottish Land Reform; Small Farmers Feed the World; GM & Organic in Australia; Right to Farm; TTIP; Co-op Farms; Song Line; Round-Up: Will the Ban Spread to Europe? |
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| FEATURES |
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| Bots on the Landscape |
| Simon Fairlie is not impressed with robots coming over here and taking our farm jobs. |
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| Rough Ground Resources |
| Peter Dudley traces a history of frugal farming in west Cornwall. |
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| Taming the Quinoa Bonanza |
| Marygold Walsh-Dilley finds Bolivian peasants pulling together. |
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| Fighting Off The Frackers |
| Katy Dunne sounds the alarm. |
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| Fracking our Food |
| Paul Mobbs joins the dots between extreme fossil fuels and industrial agriculture. |
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| WATER |
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| Monsoon Conservation |
| Richard Cox explores the many functions of India’s stepwells. |
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| The People’s Water Board |
| Gill Barron and Sharon Stewart on the acequia system of New Mexico. |
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| The Paracommons of Salvaged Water |
| Bruce Lankford ponders ‘efficiency’. |
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| The Uses of Dew |
| A neglected resource is rediscovered through dewponds in Sussex and fog-nets in Peru. |
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| Living Rivers |
| David Quammen explains why a river is really an organism. |
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| Lost in the Wash |
| Simon Fairlie explores the history of public wash-houses in Britain and France. |
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| Archimedes’ Screw Turns Again |
| Gill Barron investigates a small town micro-hydro scheme. |
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| Flood Plain Follies |
| Musings on the predicament of those who must live by the river. |
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| Community Land: Growing Together |
| Ken Elkes on two useful channels of land access information. |
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| Farming With Friends |
| Getting the plot: other routes into a land-based life. |
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| How Now, Grow Heathrow? |
| Britain’s best-known protest allotment gets a visit from Rich Thornton. |
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| The Zen of Shackery |
| The aesthetics of abandonment are explored by our staff trespassers. |
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| REVIEWS |
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| The Fear of Not Flying |
| Simon Fairlie prefers hitch-hiking. |
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| Midsummer Meadows |
| Complementary books reviewed by Patrick Whitefield and Roger Creagh-Osborne. |
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| LETTERS |
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| Kett, CAT, Permaculture (again) and Deep Green Resistance - letters from Peter Harper and others. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
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| What Stops LID Going Mainstream? |
| asks Simon Fairlie. |
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| Small Cabins A-Plenty |
| Robert Alcock on low impact buildings in Spain. |
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| The Ghost of Annex A |
| Two appeal wins clarify changing rules on agricultural dwellings. |
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