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The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last
diesel engine. This book is a trans-disciplinary approach to what
needs to be done to make our food system sustainable and to
regenerate soil and water resources, habitat, economy and society.
The book brings back classical principles of agronomy and
integrates economic, agro-ecological and social perspectives,
drawing on a wealth of expertise on the political economy of the
food system, Conservation Agriculture, and long-term field
experiments. Regenerative agriculture builds on known knowns - like
crop rotation, water and nutrient requirements, soil and water
conservation, farm-gate prices, international trade and supply
chains. It grapples with known unknowns - like weed, pest and
disease control without agrochemicals, cover crops for profit as
well as protection, mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis,
resilience and tipping points in ecosystems, farming systems and
societies, and how we can pay for imperative changes. Lastly, it
acknowledges unknown unknowns - the things we are oblivious to but
which we really must know - like how to liberate the ghettos of the
mind inhabited by farmers, agronomists, politicians and societies.
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