| Editorial |
| The Rising Cost of Housing . . . and of Land |
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| SQUATTING AND LAND TITLING |
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| A Letter |
| from Kevin Cahill author of Who Owns the World |
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| Papers for Paupers |
| Robert Home and Hilary Lim assess whether land-titling will lift squatters and settlers from poverty |
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| Why Poor People are Evicted |
| A swift round-the-world survey |
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| The Ministry of Housing Crisis |
| The French respond to rising house prices in the spirit of 1968 |
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| Has Anyone Seen My Planet? |
| asks Geonomist |
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| FARMING |
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| The FAO’s Long Shadow |
| The claim that livestock cause 18% of global warming is exaggerated, says Simon Fairlie |
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| Out of the Frying Pan |
| A Nobel prize-winner claims that N2O emissions from biofuel outweigh carbon emission savings |
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| A View from the South |
| Some observations from Third World Resurgence on the spread of biofuels |
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| Can Britain Feed Itself? |
| And can we feed ourselves with organic agriculture?. Simon Fairlie investigates |
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| Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World? |
| What direction should the organic movement take if it can’t? |
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| Cashing in on Organics |
| Christina Ballinger examines whether the organic boom is benefiting small farmers |
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| Grumbles from the Grassroots |
| Jyoti Fernandes raises questions about organic certification: Francis Blake responds |
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| The Richness of Nature |
| Dave Bangs visits a rewilded farm which doubles up as a playground for the wealthy. |
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| Imperial Takeover |
| Mark Brown, Rebecca Laughton and Sean Furey explain how Wye College was asset-stripped. |
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| The Scandal of Agricultural Tied Dwellings |
| Why is this loophole for speculators allowed to continue? |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
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| Write Your Own Low Impact Policy |
| Chapter 7’s submission to W Dorset local development framework. |
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| A Home for LID in Wales |
| Is there a place for low impact policies in Welsh planning guidance? asks Mark Dyson |
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| The Car and the Countryside |
| James Shorten on why rural living is regarded as unsustainable. |
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| Mr Urbs and Mr Rus |
| Which is more sustainable, the town or the country? It depends who you are and what you want. |
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| Two Cheers for Sherford |
| Tim Gorringe thinks planners have got some things right with a new town near Plymouth |
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| Affordable Housing Policy Relaxed |
| Are there changes in the rural exception site policy? |
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| Small is Visionary |
| The German planning system favours green self-builders, report Brian and Sibylle Rushbridge |
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| APPEALS |
| Three examples of the planning system victimizing aging smallholders; Sustainability Brings Victory for Keveral Farm and Land Matters;Five woodland homes deemed to conform to the “Country House Policy”; Whither Policy 52? Three applications have been made under Pembs Low Impact Policy, and three have been refused. |
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| Book Reviews |
| How to Live Off Grid by Nick Rosen, reviewed by Tony Wrench; Ecovillage: New Frontiers for Sustainability by Jonathan Dawson, reviewed by Molly Scott Cato; Natural Building by Tom Woolley |
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