The Land Issue 8 Winter 2009
| Who Knows Who Owns Britain? |
| Why is it so hard to find out who owns land in the UK? |
| Arse About Face |
| The European system for regulating organic and “conventional” farming has perverse consequences. |
| Peasants at Copenhagen |
| Ed Hamer reflects on the recent climate summit. |
| The Myth of Resource Efficiency |
| Mike Hannis on a new book that examines the Jevons Paradox. |
| FAO Backtrack on Livestock |
| The FAO is withdrawing from its anti-peasant stance of three years ago |
| Carbon Colonialism and the Mathematics of Methane |
| Simon Fairlie dissects hysteria about methane and livestock. |
| Ghost Carbon |
| Can organic farming capture more carbon in the soil than chemical farming? |
| Reclaim the Fields |
| As farmers get older and fewer, a new generation of European peasants is demanding access to land. |
| Big Country, Small Farms |
| Rebecca Laughton visits some mad US farmers. |
| Tomatoes All Year Round |
| The UK imports them from Morocco, but are there alternatives? |
| The Plough and The Spade |
| Christina Ballinger asks how the drive for allotments will affect local commercial growers. |
| New Allotments — Where Will They Go? |
| Will it be in a place which is convenient for consumers and growers |
| Land Value Taxation — Panacea or Placebo |
| Alanna Hartzok tackles questions about the wisdom of taxing land. |
| Keeping Occupied |
| Keith Hallack describes his life in a squat on a condemned East London estate. |
| Insurrection in the Hills |
| Ed Hamer reports on a revolt against the demolition of a bungalow in Exmoor National Park. |
| Keep Our Downs Public |
| We must stop our councils from selling off our most treasured spaces, says Dave Bangs. |
| Its Only Bondage was the Circling Sky |
| John Felstiner on poet John Clare whose parish was enclosed when he was 16. |
| Two Books |
| Patrick Whitefield on reading the landscape and Adrian Bell on the people who work in it. |
| When Will the Alpaca Bubble Burst? |
| If planning policy doesn’t change it could go on for ever, reckons Simon Fairlie. |
| Meadow End |
| Pat Kinnersley witnesses the demise of a bungalow. |
| Ground Control |
| Anna Minton on Hans Monderman, the traffic consultant who spoke out against guard rails |
| Planet Development |
| Chapter 7’s response |
| Lammas Springs into Life |
| Five months after getting permission, several families are already installed. |
| How Solid Is the Inspectorate? |
| A reader challenges Simon Fairlie’s view that it is a rock of sanity”. |
| Appeals |
| Another successful LID appeal in Pembrokeshire, and others. |
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