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REGENESIS

'For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world.' Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet to feed ourselves, yet millions still go hungry. Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can feed the world without devouring the planet. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from breeders of perennial grains to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet. Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity.

ALLEN LANE REGENESIS

GEORGE MONBIOT

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Date: 16 March 2022 Designer: Prod. Controller: Pub. Date: May 2022 ISBN: 9780241563458

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Cover design: Isabelle De Cat Cover photograph © Bridgeman Images Author photograph © Guy Reece

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GEORGE MONBIOT

George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His bestselling books include Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life and Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan, and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40 million times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, which he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 60 million times.

FEEDING THE WORLD WITHOUT DEVOURING THE PL ANET

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