| COMMENT |
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| “Despair is Not an Option.” |
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| A Fate Worse Than Trump. |
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| NEWS |
| Farm News; ZAD; Land Grabs in Europe; Wave Power; Fossil Capital; Land or Coal |
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| LAND REGISTRY |
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| Who Owns England? |
| Asks Guy Shrubsole, who has some of the answers — and a map. |
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| Land Explorer. |
| A new, interactive resource for investigating land attributes is heralded by Tom Kenny |
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| Light at the End of the Tunnel. |
| Guy Shrubsole & Tom Kenny think land data may soon be liberated. |
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| BREXIT |
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| Ask a Stupid Question . . . |
| Simon Fairlie attributes Brexit to the antidemocratic prejudice that pervadesWestminster. |
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| Safe European Home. |
| A personal reflection on Brexit by Mike Hannis. |
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| UK Agriculture After Brexit. |
| Simon Fairlie reports on the various options available. |
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| Cheap Food, Underpaid Labour |
| Luke Dale-Harris on the British reluctance to do seasonal agricultural work. |
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| ADVENTURES IN DAIRY |
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| Romanian Revival. |
| Adam Crowe reports on what’s happening to dairy farmers in Transylvania. |
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| The Milk Road. |
| A French couple cross Asia investigating the culture of milk. |
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| WEAPONS OF THE WEAK |
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| Anarchist Squint. |
| The Land pays tribute to anarchist anthropologist James C. Scott |
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| The Politics of the Silent Fart. |
| Simon Fairlie on JC Scott’s “The Weapons of the Weak” . |
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| Two Cheers for the Petty Bourgeoisie. |
| Their thwarted dreams are the tinder of revolution, claims James C. Scott. |
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| The Art of Not Being Governed – Revisited. |
| Rod Harbinson on life and struggles in Zomia. |
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| Jihad for Soil and Seed in Palestine. |
| Juman Simaan speaks out for traditional olive-growers. |
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| THE PERI-URBAN FRINGE |
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| Edgelands. |
| Marion Shoard looks afresh at the grey zones between town and country. |
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| Brown Bits Go Green. |
| The Brownfield Register gives easier access to a neglected landbank. |
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| Squandered Acres. |
| What has become of Britain’s derelict land and housing? asks Gill Barron. |
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| Farming in the Fringe. |
| The 40-year history of a pioneering city farm, told by Anita MacCallum. |
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| Underground, Overground. |
| Mysterious horticultural goings-on in old Paris, unearthed by Gill Barron. |
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| Urban Cowboys. |
| Liverpool’s city-centre dairy farms are rediscovered in two new books. |
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| Capital Growers. |
| Could we replace the Horseyculture Belt with something more beneficial? |
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| Bill Hook’s Scrap Yard. |
| Gill Barron observes the metamorphosis of rubbish. |
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| REVIEWS |
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| Limits to Logic. |
| Chris Smaje peers into an encyclopaedic assemblage of David Fleming’s ideas. |
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| Settlements. |
| David Spero ‘s photographs record two decades of low-impact dwellings. |
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| Feedback and Letters. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
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| The Tenant’s Choice. |
| Bob Trafford describes how an old London scandal has sparked a new resistance. |
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| The Profits from Enforcement. |
| Simon Fairlie pursues the latest news on beds-in-sheds and HMOs. |
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| Planning Appeals. |
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