Food and Farming
Agriculture is a sector where big changes are needed if we are going to achieve zero-carbon and restore nature. Green House contributors have written extensively on how what we eat and how our food is produced can be more sustainable and how to decarbonise the agriculture sector.
Wilding; the Return of Nature to a British Farm
Wilding raises two key issues. One is the challenge it poses to the established UK approach to nature conservation, and our approach to nature more generally. The other is whether we have more than enough food and should instead of producing food give land, such as that at Knepp over to Nature.
Meat, a Benign Extravagance
Fairlie brings several decades of practical experience of farming, a critical quantitative approach and whole systems thinking. He does not defend our current industrialised systems of livestock farming and he is clear that, collectively, we need to eat less meat