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The Land Issue 27
| OPINION |
| Take A Breath |
| Manna From Finland |
| NEWS |
| Stepping on the Gas; Seeing the Wood for the Trees; 5G: A Right Two and Eight; Paper Chase; Planes into Ploughshares; Bags for Life; Stash Your Cash; Billionaire Tells Tenants to Skip Lunch; Garway Wins the Title |
| We Want Poppies |
| Natalie Sauer joins the French resistance to pesticides. |
| CLIMATE AND TRANSPORT |
| Cars: an Exit Strategy |
| Simon Fairlie discusses how the addiction might be cured. |
| We'll Always Have Paris |
| Mike Hannis on the decline of climate co-operation. |
| High Speed Drain |
| Joe Goodman discovers that HS2 may threaten London's water supply.. |
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| Confessions of a Lockdown Sceptic |
| What was it all for, asks Simon Fairlie. |
| Final Meeting With a Remarkable Man |
| An obituary by SM Parsons. |
| AGRICULTURE |
| Continuous Grain Cropping |
| John Letts explains how to grow wheat without rotation. |
| Can We Forgive the Plough? |
| Adam Payne investigates claims made for reduced tillage. |
| Gold Under The Ferns |
| Hugh Colvin sees potential for reforesting land currently under bracken. |
| Ask Not What Soils Can Do For Us |
| Ellen Fay on why asking how many harvests left misses the point. |
| GOING UNDERGROUND |
| A Home in the Hillside |
| Gill Barron surveys the underground housing scene, past and present. |
| Tunnel Visions |
| Survival bunkers, paranoia, and evangelical extremism in the USA. |
| Bunkering Down in NW3 |
| Two very different underground homes on Hampstead Heath. |
| Rats on the Run |
| Rats will always be with us, as Gill Barron reports. |
| Pushing Up the Veggies |
| SM Parsons on human composting and natural burial. |
| The Worldwide Web of Fungus |
| Tim Peters reviews Merlin Sheldrake's new book on the incredible life of fungi. |
| Grass Roots Redistribution |
| Richard Brown reveals the unique properties of yellow rattle. |
| Burrowers Books |
| Two reviews with a subterranean theme. |
| FEEDBACK |
| from Queer Landworkers and others |
| PLANNING, HOUSING AND LAND OWNERSHIP |
| The Urgency of Space |
| Old inequalities are sharpened under lockdown, says Nick Hayes. |
| A Shed of my Own |
| Vicki Steward found hers very convivial. |
| We Are Not Despondent |
| Geoff Goss stands up for urban swimmers. |
| A Capital Charity |
| Gill Barron suspects less than charitable motives. |
| I'm Not Leaving |
| Tess Delaney reacts defiantly to being refused OPD permission. |
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The Land Issue 26
| OPINION |
| Night of the Long Spoons |
| Quality not Quantity |
| Do Not Go Naked Into That Deep Space |
| Box Clever |
| NEWS |
| FEATURES |
| Radical Intransigence |
| Mike Hannis |
| Trump Country |
| John Gaventa |
| Foxfire Revisited |
| The Invisible Footprint of Mobile Technology |
| Paul Mobbs |
| Liquid Assets |
| Simon Fairlie |
| AGRICULTURE |
| The Methane Mistake |
| Irish Stew |
| Adam Payne |
| Salvaging the Sheepwreck |
| Federico Filippi |
| Spare Land in the Hills |
| Chris Badenoch |
| TEXTILE FIBRES |
| Wear the Landscape |
| Rebecca Burgess |
| Fibreshed Comes To Britain |
| Emma Hague |
| Reclaiming the Rag Trade |
| Gill Barron |
| HOUSING AND PLANNING |
| Land for the Many |
| Simon Fairlie |
| Compound Disinterest |
| Brian Vesey Fitzgerald |
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The Land Issue 25
| EDITORIAL |
| Democracy at Work |
| Measure Twice, Cut Once |
| Live and Let Dive |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF |
| Perceptions of Insecurity • Forest Dwellers Face Eviction • ‘Vacant, Fallow and Virgin’• Rebel Yell Over Heathrow • Black is White, Wood Pellets are Green • Frackers Fear Anarchy - and Turn to Cycling • Rewilder Reaches for the Sky • Tenant Farmers Win Right to Stay • Frackers Fear Anarchy - and Turn to Cycling • Rewilder Reaches for the Sky • Tenant Farmers Win Right to Stay • Rewilder Reaches for the Sky • Tenant Farmers Win Right to Stay |
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| FRANCE |
| End of the Month, End of the World. |
| Simon Fairlie heads for France to meet some Gilets Jaunes. |
| The Luddite Wing of the Gilets Jaunes. |
| A Message from Farmers to the Gilets Jaunes. |
| A Driverless Ride to Ecological Disaster? |
| Celia Izoard is not impressed by autonomous cars. |
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| NATURE AND COMMONS |
| Making Connections at the GPO |
| Miriam Turley visits a protest against gold mining in Northern Ireland. |
| The Rights of Nature. |
| Tom Brenan reports on a global movement promoting creative legal thinking. |
| Nets Against Nature. |
| Miles King bemoans financially-minded conservation. |
| Much Maligned Mustelids. |
| Alexis Self muses on why weasels and stoats have such a bad reputation. |
| Nature and the Enclosure of the Imagination. |
| Michael Dunwell celebrates the legacy of Karl Polanyi. |
| Largest Enclosure For 300 Years. |
| Julia Aglionby explains how the MoD grabbed 10,000 acres of Cumbria. |
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| HOUSING AND URBAN |
| Land and the Housing Crisis. |
| Robin Howell has a plan to make housing affordable again. |
| London Crawling. |
| Phoebe Weston has reservations about the idea of a National Park City. |
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| AGRICULTURE |
| Seed Sovereignty in the UK. |
| Katie Hastings explains the importance of preserving crop diversity. |
| Has Britain Fed Itself? |
| Paul Lovatt Smith goes in search of lessons from history. |
| Meat on Trial: Default Hunting. |
| Federico Filippi makes the case for eating ‘pests’. |
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| REVIEWS |
| So Who Does Own England? |
| Mike Hannis reviews Guy Shrubsole's survey of land ownership in England. |
| The Corned Beef Barons. |
| An exclusive extract from Guy Shrubsole’s book 'Who Owns England?'. |
| A Tale of Two Landowners. |
| A protest sparks rumours of confusion on the moors. |
| Be True to Your Roots. |
| Simon Fairlie reviews a curious satirical text. |
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| THE FEEDBACK LOOP |
| Jenny Hall and others respond to issue 24’s articles on veganism and land use. |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Brithdir Mawr - the First 25 Years. |
| Ben Mathers looks back – and forward to the future. |
| Cramped or Snug? |
| Planners have contrasting attitudes to small dwellings. |
| Saved By the Bell. |
| Simon Fairlie reflects on apparent success. |
| A Late Bloomer. |
| Jackie Ivimy admires the determination of the late Margaret Rigby. |
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The Land Issue 24
| EDITORIALS |
| Power Where It's Needed |
| Bring Me My Bow |
| Another World Is Possible |
| NEWS IN BRIEF |
| MoD Brings Back Enclosure • Fishing in Murky Waters • Hitting the Brakes on Ex /Terminator Gene Drives • Raising the Bog Standards • Green Welly Brigade Warned Off in Wales • Who’s Still backing Fracking? • Fracking Threatens Aboriginal Land Rights • Myanmar: ‘Too Many Consultants’ • Island-Grabbing in Indonesia |
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| 1. LIVESTOCK ON TRIAL – FOUR CHARGES. |
| Section Editor SIMON FAIRLIE |
| Opening Statements. |
| A Letter to the Editors. |
| Why Go Vegan? |
| William Gildea of the Vegan Society makes the case. |
| CHARGE I: KEEPING LIVESTOCK IS CRUEL. |
| The Swineherd’s Knife and the Tiger’s Claw. |
| Where the Wild Things Went. |
| Gill Barron looks into the origins of domestication. |
| CHARGE II: LIVESTOCK ARE INEFFICIENT FOOD PROVIDERS. |
| Eating the Platter Clean. |
| CHARGE III: LIVESTOCK CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING. |
| A Convenient Untruth: How Livestock Have Been Slandered by Sloppy Science. |
| Why a Herd of Cows is Like a Closed Power Station. |
| Michelle Cain explains. |
| Waning Cats and Dogs. |
| Gill Barron queries the eco-footprint of keeping pets. |
| An Encore for the Horse. |
| Perhaps work is more fun than idleness, suggests Gill Barron. |
| CHARGE IV: LIVESTOCK CAUSE POLLUTION. |
| Fixing the Whole. Do “leaks” matter? |
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| 2. ALTERNATIVE USES OF LAND. |
| Section Editor SIMON FAIRLIE |
| ALTERNATIVE I: LAND TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE. |
| Zero Carbon Britain. |
| Peter Harper explains in an interview how it could happen. |
| Grass for Gas or Grass for Cows? |
| Can biomethane and dairy co-exist? |
| Pulling Up the Grass Roots. |
| What if a dairy smallholding turned vegan? |
| Alternative Food: Resigning from Nature. |
| Dietary fearmongering leads to strange scenarios. |
| When No-One Eats Anyone Else |
| Gill Barron tiptoes into a post-vegan vision of paradise. |
| ALTERNATIVE II: REWILDING. |
| Wild in the Weald. |
| What’s happening on the Knepp Estate in Sussex? |
| Part of the Mosaic. |
| Marion Reed and Phil Wilson on lowland rewilding. |
| Size Matters. |
| Rewilding Britain’s new Welsh project is on a grand scale. |
| The Jungle Underfoot. |
| Micro-critters matter as much as megafauna, argues Gill Barron. |
| Beavers Return to Our Waters. |
| Hugh Warwick reviews Eager by Ben Goldfarb. |
| The Wildness Delusion. |
| Gavin Saunders asks where people fit into the rewilding proposal. |
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| LAND OWNERSHIP |
| Invisible Land Comes Into View. |
| Tom Kenny on land reform developments. |
| What Does LVT Bring to the Party? |
| Gavin Kerr on where Britain’s politicians stand on Land Value Tax. |
| Something to Grouse About. |
| Are the Moors in the wrong hands, asks Guy Shrubsole. |
| Holes in the Map. |
| Anna Powell-Smith knows how to track down unregistered land. |
| Of Cages and Hedges. |
| Chris Smaje asks what Chinese urbanisation has meant for peasants |
| The Biggest Privatisation? |
| Anna Powell-Smith reviews The New Enclosure by Brett Christophers. |
| READERS WRITE. |
| Feedback on Issue 23: HS2, The Woodland Trust and Street Trees. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
| A Good Year for The Ecological Land Co-operative |
| One Planet Successes • Sweat Equity • Beyond Yurts • Class Q Fallback • Where Have All the Appeals Gone? |
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The Land Issue 23
| COMMENT |
| Net Profits |
| Purveyors of Ugliness |
| Crazy Paving |
| NEWS |
| Peasants’ Rights Denied • Geoengineering in the USA • Whose Wind is it Anyway? • Profiting from Disaster • An Englishman’s Second Home • Beasts From The East |
| FEATURES |
| May 1968 in the Countryside. |
| Simon Fairlie recalls French history, and finds it echoed in the present day. |
| Groundhog Day for the Cumbrian Ostrich. |
| Mike Hannis asks who will end up with Britain’s nuclear waste. |
| Progress Without People. |
| Dave King questions the left’s acceptance of automation. |
| Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency. |
| Kris de Decker makes a plea for sufficiency. |
| The Romans Have Left Britain. |
| S M Parsons observes a classic peri-urban community regeneration drama. |
| A WAY INTO THE WOODS |
| A Many-Hatted Man. |
| Pioneer of the coppicing revival Walter Lloyd, remembered by Gill Barron. |
| This Burning Business. |
| Olly Craigan asks why we burn African charcoal instead of home-grown. |
| Chop and Change. |
| Pete Ditchfield poses some questions to the Woodland Trust. |
| Treebogs at Trollheim. |
| The Church of England installs eco-loos in churchyards. |
| Nuts to the National Forest. |
| HS2 gives the lie to Government tree-planting promises, says Gill Barron. |
| Town Trees on Trial. |
| Hazel Greenwood finds trees being undervalued in Sheffield. |
| LAND OWNERSHIP |
| How Many People Own the UK? |
| Guy Shrubsole, Anna Powell-Smith and Robin Grey try to find out. |
| Colour in the Landscape. |
| Nick Hayes traces how empire and the slave trade shaped rural England. |
| ZIMBABWE |
| Land Reform Myths Revisited. |
| Ian Scoones looks at the impact of land reform upon the wider rural economy. |
| Land Reform in Zimbabwe: a Personal Account. |
| Nelson Mudzingwa adds historical and personal context. |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Reclaiming the Means of Construction |
| Tom Chance explains Community-led Housing. |
| The Single Plot. |
| Policies allowing one-off dwellings on village edges are a step in the right direction. |
| DIY Planning Handbook. |
| The indispensable guide returns in a new fully updated edition. |
| Cases and Policy News |
| Horse-logger wins in Herefordshire. |
| Dartmoor Capitulates. |
| The Hillyfield appeal result marks a rare victory in the National Park. |
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The Land Issue 22
| COMMENT |
| A Tale of Two Cities |
| ‘Public Goods’ Mean Private Benefits |
| Running Out of Space |
| NEWS |
| • A Little Light at the Land Registry • People Power in Peterborough • Granville Still Cooking • Happy Estovers • Grim Times for farmers in India • Killed by Cops for Failing Paperwork • Planned Obsolescence? • Duelling Golfers • Tummy Ache for Tesco • Sisters to Plant a Billion Trees |
| WAVES OF CHANGE: THE NEW LAND MOVEMENT |
| Root & Branch |
| A graphic history of the land reform movement by Nick Hayes |
| Reclaiming the Commons |
| Guy Shrubsole interviews George Monbiot. |
| Lessons from Scotland |
| England’s next steps towards land reform, from Andy Wightman. |
| Into the Woods |
| Marion Shoard has a proposal for expanding the Right to Roam. |
| Campaigns & Campaigners |
| A selection of activists describe their aims and achievements. |
| Land Value Capture |
| Tom Kenny sounds out the experts on uplift. |
| The Land Business |
| Robin Grey interviews Christopher Price of the CLA. |
| FEATURES |
| The Human Hive |
| Chris Smaje goes into the past and future of Agrarian economies. |
| Mining the Desert |
| Mike Hannis & Sian Sullivan report on unsustainable extraction in southen Africa. |
| NATURE KNOWS BEST |
| Section Editor Gill Barron |
| Bunking off from Babylon |
| How addiction to screens leads to Nature Deficit Disorder. |
| Love Over Fear |
| A school in Sussex goes back to the Bronze Age. |
| Branches of Learning |
| Where do Forest Schools go from here? |
| Champion Campers |
| How 20th century youth movements got the kids off the streets. |
| Feel-Good Farming? |
| From Care Farms to prisons, landwork works wonders. |
| In Better Heart |
| Agricultural college curricula have turned a corner, writes James Bentley. |
| Just Horsin’ Around |
| The real-world benefits of EATing. |
| Return of The Shepherd |
| Simon Fairlie studies herding schools in France. |
| Really Wild |
| Wolves in the Pyrenees show the drawbacks of rewilding. |
| Mob Grazing |
| A guide to the latest fashion in grassland management. |
| AGRICULTURE |
| Section Editor Simon Fairlie |
| Is Grass-Fed Guilt-Free? |
| Tara Garnett’s new report on livestock’s methane emissions. |
| Beyond the Pale |
| A cautionary tale about fences, as reported by Gill Barron. |
| Pig Swill Wars |
| Less waste food is being wasted, thanks to an upscaled campaign. |
| Petition of the Pigs in Parliament |
| Robin Grey presents a singalong with the woodland swine. |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Bailiffs in Balaclavas |
| How Bristol Council outsources squatter evictions, by Tony Gosling. |
| Enforcement News |
| Green Belt Decision / Scottish Huts / Letter |
| Case Notes |
| including Class Q rights, Dartmoor news, and a new guide for woodland workers. |
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The Land Issue 21
| COMMENT |
| “Despair is Not an Option.” |
| A Fate Worse Than Trump. |
| NEWS |
| Farm News; ZAD; Land Grabs in Europe; Wave Power; Fossil Capital; Land or Coal |
| LAND REGISTRY |
| Who Owns England? |
| Asks Guy Shrubsole, who has some of the answers — and a map. |
| Land Explorer. |
| A new, interactive resource for investigating land attributes is heralded by Tom Kenny |
| Light at the End of the Tunnel. |
| Guy Shrubsole & Tom Kenny think land data may soon be liberated. |
| BREXIT |
| Ask a Stupid Question . . . |
| Simon Fairlie attributes Brexit to the antidemocratic prejudice that pervadesWestminster. |
| Safe European Home. |
| A personal reflection on Brexit by Mike Hannis. |
| UK Agriculture After Brexit. |
| Simon Fairlie reports on the various options available. |
| Cheap Food, Underpaid Labour |
| Luke Dale-Harris on the British reluctance to do seasonal agricultural work. |
| ADVENTURES IN DAIRY |
| Romanian Revival. |
| Adam Crowe reports on what’s happening to dairy farmers in Transylvania. |
| The Milk Road. |
| A French couple cross Asia investigating the culture of milk. |
| WEAPONS OF THE WEAK |
| Anarchist Squint. |
| The Land pays tribute to anarchist anthropologist James C. Scott |
| The Politics of the Silent Fart. |
| Simon Fairlie on JC Scott’s “The Weapons of the Weak” . |
| Two Cheers for the Petty Bourgeoisie. |
| Their thwarted dreams are the tinder of revolution, claims James C. Scott. |
| The Art of Not Being Governed – Revisited. |
| Rod Harbinson on life and struggles in Zomia. |
| Jihad for Soil and Seed in Palestine. |
| Juman Simaan speaks out for traditional olive-growers. |
| THE PERI-URBAN FRINGE |
| Edgelands. |
| Marion Shoard looks afresh at the grey zones between town and country. |
| Brown Bits Go Green. |
| The Brownfield Register gives easier access to a neglected landbank. |
| Squandered Acres. |
| What has become of Britain’s derelict land and housing? asks Gill Barron. |
| Farming in the Fringe. |
| The 40-year history of a pioneering city farm, told by Anita MacCallum. |
| Underground, Overground. |
| Mysterious horticultural goings-on in old Paris, unearthed by Gill Barron. |
| Urban Cowboys. |
| Liverpool’s city-centre dairy farms are rediscovered in two new books. |
| Capital Growers. |
| Could we replace the Horseyculture Belt with something more beneficial? |
| Bill Hook’s Scrap Yard. |
| Gill Barron observes the metamorphosis of rubbish. |
| REVIEWS |
| Limits to Logic. |
| Chris Smaje peers into an encyclopaedic assemblage of David Fleming’s ideas. |
| Settlements. |
| David Spero ‘s photographs record two decades of low-impact dwellings. |
| Feedback and Letters. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| The Tenant’s Choice. |
| Bob Trafford describes how an old London scandal has sparked a new resistance. |
| The Profits from Enforcement. |
| Simon Fairlie pursues the latest news on beds-in-sheds and HMOs. |
| Planning Appeals. |
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The Land Issue 20 — OUT OF PRINT
| COMMENT |
| The House of Lords and the House of Frauds |
| PSPOs in the Park |
| NEWS |
| Biogassed are the Cheesemakers; Good Grub(s) for Pigs; Love those Lentils; Higgs Boson Meets Its Match; Burying Biofuels; GM Overview Overdue • Nightmare in November; Scottish Fudge; Yorkley Court Farm — Utopia Bulldozed? |
| MIGRATION |
| Life on the Borderline |
| Preview extracts from Threads, Kate Evans’ graphic novel of life in the Calais Jungle. |
| Passport to Privilege |
| Theo Simon reflects on a week in the camp at Calais. |
| LANDLESS LIFESTYLES |
| Tinker, Vagabond, Journeyman, Tramp |
| Gill Barron encounters the itinerant population of Early Modern Britain. |
| The Case of the Vanishing Vagabonds |
| A lament for the disappearance of tramps. |
| The Road Goes Ever On |
| Being of No Fixed Abode in Britain nowadays ain’t easy, as Raina Jones explains. |
| Elimination by Definition |
| Sophie Hemery on the Government’s latest attempt to purge the land of Gypsies. |
| Turf Wars |
| An alleged epidemic of trespassers may be exaggerated by vested interests, according to Gill Barron. |
| FORAGING |
| Born to be Wild |
| Foraging can help feed people sustainably, says Miles Irving. |
| Has Foraging Gone Too Far? |
| A crackdown prompts Daniel Butler to look into the law. |
| Good King Henry and the Old Fat Hen |
| Historic weeds make tasty treats. |
| A Hatful from the Hedgerow |
| John Wright’s new book leaves nothing out. |
| A Sea Buckthorn Story |
| Willow Walker describes her discovery of this feral food from the dunes. |
| If You Can’t Beat It, Eat It |
| Japanese knotweed for pudding, anybody? |
| A Harvest from the Waves |
| Seacoaling has lessons for foragers, say Gill Barron and Simon Fairlie. |
| More Borage than Porridge |
| Simon Fairlie thinks foraging is a load of hogweed. |
| GOD’S OWN ACRES |
| Adios to the Landed Clergy |
| How ‘glebe land’ was privatised - soon to be followed by the Land Registry. |
| The Great Estates of God |
| Gloria Mundy explains how the Church of England acquired its land. |
| A Tale of Tithes and Turnips |
| Gwen Vessey tells the story of an 18th century farming parson. |
| Charity Begins in Church? |
| The Church Commissioners’ finances give Gill Barron a headache. |
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| Hunting for the Exit |
| Chris Smaje finds two conflicting strands in George Monbiot’s latest book. |
| Sustainability After Development |
| Mike Hannis rescues a useful principle from a dense thicket. |
| Ricardo, Rent and Rural Revival |
| Simon Fairlie connects up the economics of food and housing. |
| Research, not Gambling |
| A reader calls for government funding of research into organic productivity. |
| Cheese Sovereignty |
| David Asher spurns the corporate involvement in modern cheesemaking. |
| London’s Growing |
| Felicia Ruperti has an update on the blossoming of market gardens in the city. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| An Act of Folly |
| Simon Fairlie finds the new Housing and Planning Act heading in the wrong direction (again). |
| Building Blocks |
| Community Land Trusts are the answer to unaffordable housing, as Fran Ryan describes. |
| Perseverance Furthers |
| Hang in there, is Bill Lloyd’s advice to Travellers up against the planning system. |
| Planning Update |
| Three low impact communities up for planning renewal - with mixed results. |
| Reading Matters |
| A round-up of virtual reading resources. |
| Announcements and Events |
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The Land Issue 19
| COMMENT |
| That Sinking Feeling |
| After the climate talks in Paris, carbon capture is the only game in town. |
| Taking Planning to the Cleaners |
| The right wing campaign to dismantle the planning system comes to Downing Street. |
| NEWS |
| Farmers Take their Beef to Brussels; Neonicotinoids; Herefordshire County Farm Sell-off; Bovine TB Targets Big Farms; Monsanto on Trial; Boycott Palm Oil; Bioreactor Burgers; Brexit Threatens Farms; Synthetic Biology and Climate Smart Agriculture |
| MANIFESTO |
| Equality in the Countryside |
| A rural manifesto from The Land and the Land Workers’ Alliance. |
| LAND IN THE CITY |
| The Return of the Pickers |
| A fruit gleaning project in East London reminds Kathrin Böhm of the days of hop-picking. |
| Succulent Climbers |
| Ida Fabrizio persuades vegetable growers and rockclimbers to combine forces at a London castle. |
| Stepney City Farm |
| Tim Dickens visits six acres of productive Arcadia in East London. |
| Ready Steady Farm |
| Organic Lea is a model for the urban farms that London needs, writes Felicia Ruperti. |
| Beacon of Hope |
| Bonnie Hewson describes schemes to assist aspiring growers in Bristol, Manchester and East Anglia. |
| Demystifying Wheat |
| Simon Fairlie attends a meeting in London about growing wheat. |
| LIVESTOCK |
| Meat Tax |
| The best way to reduce meat consumption, argues Simon Fairlie, is to tax fossil fuels. |
| The Sheep’s Existential Crisis |
| What are sheep for? |
| Alternatives to Soya Imports |
| Grow soya in Romania, grow beans in Britain, or feed swill to pigs? |
| Pig City Paranoia |
| Simon Fairlie is disdainful of biosecurity regimes on pig farms. |
| Virtual Enclosure |
| How to herd cows with a mouse. |
| UKRAINE |
| Coexistence in Ukraine |
| Natalia Mamonova explains why peasant farmers aren’t contesting corporate landgrabs. |
| Buying Up the Breadbasket |
| Adam Payne describes how Ukraine is being asset stripped by landgrabbers and agribusiness. |
| Getting the Wind Up |
| What hope is there for community renewable energy under this government? John Hallé reports. |
| The Edgeworth Family Trees |
| Hugh Colvin recounts the history of the legendary avenue of oaks. |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
| Speed to the Plough |
| Stephen Leslie’s new book on horse-powered farming. |
| Undermining Ujamaa |
| After 25 years searching, Dave Darby finds out what killed off Tanzania’s communal village project. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| How the Tories are Abolishing Affordable Housing |
| By stealth and through “starter homes”. |
| Tackling the Housing Crisis |
| Building more houses is not the answer, according to three writers from Greenhouse. |
| Enforcement Champions |
| The government increases funding for the campaign to get rid of “beds in sheds”. |
| Do It Yourself New Town |
| The UK’s largest self-build development is visionary, but exclusive. |
| Development Control |
| New planning advice is making retrospective applications riskier. |
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The Land Issue 18 Summer 2015
| COMMENT |
| Disproportional Misrepresentation |
| 1215 And All That |
| NEWS |
| Hack the Farm; PSPO, son of ASBO; Mugabe in Scotland; Round-up to be Wound up. |
| Growers on a Bus to Nowhere. |
| Maddy Longhurst asks why allotments should be sacrificed to buses. |
| Yes to Land Reform. |
| Scotland is prepared for change, and soon, says Craig Bayne. |
| Dairy Farmers Betrayed. |
| Simon Fairlie stands up for small milk producers. |
| LAND TENURE |
| Owning the Earth. |
| Mike Hannis discovers Andro Linklater’s history of how land became private property. |
| Food is Security. |
| In Russia, growing your own comes naturally, reports Tony Gosling. |
| Protests in Poland. |
| Adam Payne reports on large-scale protests by small-scale farmers. |
| Tickets to Farm. |
| How farm tenancies work, explained by George Dunn of the Tenant Farmers Association. |
| Another Fine Feudal Fiasco. |
| Gill Barron probes the seamy side of manorial rights. |
| Breaking Up is Hard to Do. |
| Angus Hanton makes the case for increasing private ownership of small woodlands. |
| OTHER FEATURES |
| The Dearth of Grass. |
| Chris Smaje untangles the connections between cereals, civilisation and colonialism. |
| Rewilding Humanity? |
| Jane Robertson tries the Paleo diet for real in the North American mountains. |
| Undermining Resistance. |
| NGOs aren’t always good guys, say campaigners Samarendra Das and Miriam Rose. |
| Of Pomonas and Sylvas. |
| Roger Creagh-Osborne celebrates local orchards and their cataloguers. |
| Patrick Whitefield, an Appreciation. |
| Caroline Aitken appraises a good life well lived. |
| Feedback |
| Roger Martin discusses population with Simon Fairlie. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| Reluctant Gamekeepers. |
| The legal alternative for squatters is cheap and nasty, finds Simon Fairlie. |
| Dragons’ Den. |
| How a computer model now decides who can live where. |
| Cast Adrift. |
| Bureaucrats have it in for the boat-dwellers on Britain’s canals, as Adam Weymouth reports. |
| End of the Road? |
| Simon Ruston details government’s gradual undermining of Gypsy and Traveller lifestyles. |
| A Glimpse of the Future. |
| Chapter 7’s DIY Planning Guide is being revamped for the NPPF era. |
| Who Are the Real Rogues? |
| Simon Fairlie on "Rogue Landlords" and "Beds in Sheds". |
| Appeals etc. |
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