{"product_id":"saying-no-to-a-farm-free-future","title":"Saying No To A Farm Free Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘If you want real food, food security and a truly biodiverse countryside, please, please read this book.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e John Lewis-Stempel, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMeadowland \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘[A] timely response to those who are constructing a dystopia of farms without farmers, food without farms, while promoting more industrialisation of the food system.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Vandana Shiva, activist and author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTerra Viva\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrilliant and compelling … at once hopeful and persuasive about the future of food\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDan Barber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, chef at Blue Hill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eNamed the \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003e\u003cem data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eInc.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003e Non-Obvious Book Awards ''Best Books of 2023''\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaying NO to a Farm-Free Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is a powerful and timely response to the ongoing search for our sustainable food future.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the face of ongoing food, energy and environmental crises, Chris Smaje, farmer and social scientist, has become one of the most prescient voices on the future of farming. In his new book, he explores the false promises and unconsidered consequences of food techno-solutions advocated by ecomodernists like George Monbiot, arguing that we should not divorce ourselves from rural living and must embrace a future that includes farming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSaying NO to a Farm-Free Future\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e passionately argues for scaling up the pro-nature principles of low-energy, biodiverse and agroecological farming, and for putting the power back into the hands of small-scale farmers and producers, and the local communities that support them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A case for a rural agricultural landscape that delivers food without wrecking the planet’. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJake Fiennes, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLand Healer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Everyone in the food business needs to read this … lively and superbly written polemic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e.’ Joel Salatin, co-founder of Polyface Farm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307635450238,"sku":"NW9781915294166","price":13.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781915294166.jpg?v=1778551037","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/saying-no-to-a-farm-free-future","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}