| COMMENT |
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| That Sinking Feeling |
| After the climate talks in Paris, carbon capture is the only game in town. |
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| Taking Planning to the Cleaners |
| The right wing campaign to dismantle the planning system comes to Downing Street. |
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| NEWS |
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| Farmers Take their Beef to Brussels; Neonicotinoids; Herefordshire County Farm Sell-off; Bovine TB Targets Big Farms; Monsanto on Trial; Boycott Palm Oil; Bioreactor Burgers; Brexit Threatens Farms; Synthetic Biology and Climate Smart Agriculture |
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| MANIFESTO |
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| Equality in the Countryside |
| A rural manifesto from The Land and the Land Workers’ Alliance. |
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| LAND IN THE CITY |
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| The Return of the Pickers |
| A fruit gleaning project in East London reminds Kathrin Böhm of the days of hop-picking. |
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| Succulent Climbers |
| Ida Fabrizio persuades vegetable growers and rockclimbers to combine forces at a London castle. |
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| Stepney City Farm |
| Tim Dickens visits six acres of productive Arcadia in East London. |
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| Ready Steady Farm |
| Organic Lea is a model for the urban farms that London needs, writes Felicia Ruperti. |
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| Beacon of Hope |
| Bonnie Hewson describes schemes to assist aspiring growers in Bristol, Manchester and East Anglia. |
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| Demystifying Wheat |
| Simon Fairlie attends a meeting in London about growing wheat. |
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| LIVESTOCK |
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| Meat Tax |
| The best way to reduce meat consumption, argues Simon Fairlie, is to tax fossil fuels. |
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| The Sheep’s Existential Crisis |
| What are sheep for? |
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| Alternatives to Soya Imports |
| Grow soya in Romania, grow beans in Britain, or feed swill to pigs? |
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| Pig City Paranoia |
| Simon Fairlie is disdainful of biosecurity regimes on pig farms. |
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| Virtual Enclosure |
| How to herd cows with a mouse. |
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| UKRAINE |
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| Coexistence in Ukraine |
| Natalia Mamonova explains why peasant farmers aren’t contesting corporate landgrabs. |
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| Buying Up the Breadbasket |
| Adam Payne describes how Ukraine is being asset stripped by landgrabbers and agribusiness. |
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| Getting the Wind Up |
| What hope is there for community renewable energy under this government? John Hallé reports. |
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| The Edgeworth Family Trees |
| Hugh Colvin recounts the history of the legendary avenue of oaks. |
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| BOOK REVIEWS |
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| Speed to the Plough |
| Stephen Leslie’s new book on horse-powered farming. |
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| Undermining Ujamaa |
| After 25 years searching, Dave Darby finds out what killed off Tanzania’s communal village project. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
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| How the Tories are Abolishing Affordable Housing |
| By stealth and through “starter homes”. |
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| Tackling the Housing Crisis |
| Building more houses is not the answer, according to three writers from Greenhouse. |
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| Enforcement Champions |
| The government increases funding for the campaign to get rid of “beds in sheds”. |
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| Do It Yourself New Town |
| The UK’s largest self-build development is visionary, but exclusive. |
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| Development Control |
| New planning advice is making retrospective applications riskier. |
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