Sixty Harvests Left

Lymbery, Philip

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Taking its title from a chilling warning made by the United Nations that the world’s soils could be gone within a lifetime, ‘Sixty Harvests Left’ uncovers how the food industry threatens our world. Put simply, without soils there will be no food: game over. And time is running out. A fast-paced global thriller, ‘Sixty Harvests Left’ takes us behind closed doors and into the boardrooms of industrial agriculture, investigating the dark side of food production. It confronts ‘Big Ag’, whose mega-farms, chemicals and animal cages are sweeping the countryside and jeopardising the very air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat and the nature we treasure. It spotlights the pioneers who are battling to bring landscapes back to life, in a world where wildlife, hens, pigs and people thrive by protecting the very thing that our civilisation is built on – soil.

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Publish Date: 18/08/2022
ISBN: 9781526619327 Category: Tag:

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‘The warnings are coming thick and fast now and Lymbery’s are clear, concise and truly frightening … But we have solutions that we must implement now.’ Chris Packham ‘Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we’ve made in our food system, but he has bold and inspiring solutions to offer, too.’ Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallSixty Harvests Left not only reveals how industrial farming is ruining our soils but shows how we can adapt to restore the planet for a nature-friendly future.Taking its title from a chilling warning made by the United Nations that the world’s soils could be lost within a lifetime, Sixty Harvests Left uncovers how the food industry is threatening the planet. Put simply, without soils there will be no food: game over. And time is running out.From the United Kingdom to Italy, from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA, Philip Lymbery, the internationally acclaimed author of Farmageddon, goes behind the scenes of industrial farming and confronts ‘Big Agriculture’, where mega-farms, chemicals and animal cages are sweeping the countryside and jeopardising the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat and the nature that we treasure. In his investigations, however, he also finds hope in the pioneers who are battling to bring landscapes back to life, who are rethinking farming methods, rediscovering traditional techniques and developing technologies to feed an ever-expanding global population.Impassioned, balanced and persuasive, Sixty Harvests Left not only demonstrates why future harvests matter more than ever, but reveals how we can restore our planet for a nature-friendly future.

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Weight 714 g
Dimensions 234 × 153 × 37 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

400

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

338.19 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K