A tractor prepares farmland in England for sowing crops. Environmental activist George Monbiot says our current, large-scale, tillage farms – fuelled by fertiliser overkill – are killing soil fertility and aren’t the solution to feeding the world’s growing population. Photo: AFP
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Food without farms – a blueprint for feeding the world and saving the planet by George Monbiot, environmental activist
- George Monbiot’s prediction that the global food system would break down came true when Russia invaded Ukraine. He has some ideas for what should replace it
- Modern farming is destroying land and harming soil fertility, so move most food production to factories and let nature recover, the environmental activist says
A tractor prepares farmland in England for sowing crops. Environmental activist George Monbiot says our current, large-scale, tillage farms – fuelled by fertiliser overkill – are killing soil fertility and aren’t the solution to feeding the world’s growing population. Photo: AFP
