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The Land issue 17
| COMMENT |
| Change the Record |
| The general election: some of our best friends are anarchists, but . . . |
| A Movement of People |
| Tobacco Road |
| NEWS SHORTS |
| Farmers For Action in Action; World Bank Grades Countries for Landgrabbers; French Farmers Furious; Only 100 Harvests Left; GM Labelling in Vermont; Monsanto Litigious Again; No More Schnews; Forest Dwellers Fight Dam; IMF in Ukraine. |
| POPULATION |
| Towards Ten Billion |
| An introduction in which The Editors survey the territory. |
| Vox Pop |
| Simon Fairlie compares different approaches taken towards the population question. |
| Spuriously Neutral Mathematics |
| Population numbers offer no useful pointers to policies, says The Cornerhouse. |
| Reconciling Differences |
| There is a place to mention population and a place not to mention it, says Frances Kissling. |
| We Can Pursue Two Big Issues at the Same Time |
| Let’s tackle population and consumption, says Jonathan Porritt. |
| The Consumption Bomb |
| Fred Pearce argues that it is corporations, not populations, which cause pressure on land. |
| Out of Sight in the Cities |
| Is urbanisation a solution for overpopulation, or a way of distancing the problem? |
| Feeding the Nine Billion |
| Ed Hamer on the way the population issue is used to promote agribusiness. |
| Anthropocene Defaunation |
| We couldn’t find anyone who would write about rewilding a world of 10 billion people. |
| This Elephant is a Red Herring |
| Restricting immigration is no solution to overpopulation, writes Mike Hannis. |
| The Hare and the Tortoise |
| Simon Fairlie reasons that as the birth rate stabilises, longevity will become the big issue. |
| Singular Lives |
| The history of the booming “Childfree” movement is traced by Gill Barron. |
| Repro, Techno, Bingo |
| Gill Barron peers into the dark side of ART – Assisted Reproductive Technology. |
| Small is Dutiful |
| And finally, yes, we do have a solution to the overpopulation problem. |
| FEATURES |
| No Puçaran |
| We, like sheep, will no longer stray, thanks to microchips. |
| 1000 Cow Factories |
| Farmers occupy the first French megadairy. |
| The True Cost of Cheap Milk |
| Philip Lymbery visits the spiritual home of the cow factory. |
| Forty Years of Longo Maï |
| Life begins for the pan-European network of radical farm communities. |
| Kenya Clearance |
| Jyoti Fernandes visits the Sengwer who are being forced off their land for a carbon offset scheme. |
| A Cautionary Tale |
| Fine rural ideals, pity about the fascist tendencies. Simon Fairlie examines the Distributists. |
| Green Rising |
| Fine communist ideals, pity about the urban bias. Simon Fairlie reviews Mitrany’s 'Marx Versus the Peasant'. |
| What’s the Hitch? |
| Hitchhiking dead? Not yet, says Adam Weymouth |
| Fencing the Dyke |
| Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: but Hugh Colvin removes trees from Offa’s Dyke in a Land Rover. |
| Don’t Even Think About It |
| Gill Barron reviews George Marshall’s book analysing climate inertia. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| Self-Build Vanguards |
| Self-build local development orders? Nice work if we can get it. |
| Enforcement |
| As Pickles tightens the screw, Hounslow wins this years’ award for evicting people. |
| Second Homes a Human Right? |
| James Shorten takes the planning minister to task. |
| Housebuilders Offset Carbon and Orchids |
| The offset mindset worms its way into the banal world of planning. |
| Barn Conversion |
| As we feared – a bonanza for landowners. |
| Worrying Times for Geese |
| Another common is being privatised. |
| One Planet Council |
| The One Planet movement is gathering momentum. |
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The Land Issue 16 Summer 2014
| COMMENT |
| Land Registry: Data For Sale |
| Snorkels at Dawn |
| Frankenflesh |
| NEWS SHORTS |
| Scottish Land Reform; Small Farmers Feed the World; GM & Organic in Australia; Right to Farm; TTIP; Co-op Farms; Song Line; Round-Up: Will the Ban Spread to Europe? |
| FEATURES |
| Bots on the Landscape |
| Simon Fairlie is not impressed with robots coming over here and taking our farm jobs. |
| Rough Ground Resources |
| Peter Dudley traces a history of frugal farming in west Cornwall. |
| Taming the Quinoa Bonanza |
| Marygold Walsh-Dilley finds Bolivian peasants pulling together. |
| Fighting Off The Frackers |
| Katy Dunne sounds the alarm. |
| Fracking our Food |
| Paul Mobbs joins the dots between extreme fossil fuels and industrial agriculture. |
| WATER |
| Monsoon Conservation |
| Richard Cox explores the many functions of India’s stepwells. |
| The People’s Water Board |
| Gill Barron and Sharon Stewart on the acequia system of New Mexico. |
| The Paracommons of Salvaged Water |
| Bruce Lankford ponders ‘efficiency’. |
| The Uses of Dew |
| A neglected resource is rediscovered through dewponds in Sussex and fog-nets in Peru. |
| Living Rivers |
| David Quammen explains why a river is really an organism. |
| Lost in the Wash |
| Simon Fairlie explores the history of public wash-houses in Britain and France. |
| Archimedes’ Screw Turns Again |
| Gill Barron investigates a small town micro-hydro scheme. |
| Flood Plain Follies |
| Musings on the predicament of those who must live by the river. |
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| Community Land: Growing Together |
| Ken Elkes on two useful channels of land access information. |
| Farming With Friends |
| Getting the plot: other routes into a land-based life. |
| How Now, Grow Heathrow? |
| Britain’s best-known protest allotment gets a visit from Rich Thornton. |
| The Zen of Shackery |
| The aesthetics of abandonment are explored by our staff trespassers. |
| REVIEWS |
| The Fear of Not Flying |
| Simon Fairlie prefers hitch-hiking. |
| Midsummer Meadows |
| Complementary books reviewed by Patrick Whitefield and Roger Creagh-Osborne. |
| LETTERS |
| Kett, CAT, Permaculture (again) and Deep Green Resistance - letters from Peter Harper and others. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| What Stops LID Going Mainstream? |
| asks Simon Fairlie. |
| Small Cabins A-Plenty |
| Robert Alcock on low impact buildings in Spain. |
| The Ghost of Annex A |
| Two appeal wins clarify changing rules on agricultural dwellings. |
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The Land Issue 15 Winter 2013-2014
| COMMENT |
| Facing up to Fracking |
| Land Reform in Sight |
| No Milk Today |
| Adios Streetlights, Starlight Hello |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
| Year of the Family Farm - No Subsidies for Smallholders under Twelve Acres - Fracking in England and Romania - NFU Betrays Bees - Banks Bulldoze Borneo - TTIP - Tesco - Cattle on the Common - Food Waste - Oxford Farming Conferences |
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| From Bad to Worse |
| Coal-fired power stations are switching to imported wood pellets. Mike Hannis questions the outcome. |
| Money Makes the Earth Move |
| Who will bail out the Spanish gas storage cock-up? ask Elena Gerebizza and Xavier Sol. |
| Unnatural Capital |
| Allocating a financial value to nature paves the way for increased development, argues Mike Hannis. |
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| AGRICULTURE |
| Seeds of Resistance |
| Ed Hamer explains how EU legislation threatens seed sovereignty. |
| Swill, Swine Fever and Slaughter |
| The threat of disease is being used to eliminate backyard farmers. Simon Fairlie reports. |
| 40,000 Cow Megadairy on Indian Gigafarm |
| The shape of things to come in India? |
| Livestock’s Shadow Shortened |
| The FAO retracts its estimate that 18 per cent of global warming comes from livestock. |
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| FEEDBACK |
| Peasants, Food Sovereignty and The Landworkers’ Alliance |
| ... defended by Chris Smaje. |
| Permaculture Looks in the Mirror |
| Responses to articles in issue 14. |
| Can Arable be Permacultural? |
| Federico Filippi does the experiments. |
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| FEATURES |
| Selling the Silver |
| The enclosure of UK fisheries by the quota system is analysed by Emma Cardwell. |
| Securing Land for Farmers |
| Neil Ravenscroft examines what the UK can learn from Terre de Liens in France. |
| How Co-ops get Carpet-Bagged |
| Donal O’Driscoll looks at the weaknesses and strengths of housing co-ops. |
| The Scandal of Ireby Fell. |
| Landgrabbers and the Land Registry in cahoots? Gill Barron reports. |
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| THE READING SEASON |
| Obituaries - Great Writers on Land Issues |
| Elaine Morgan, Joan Thirsk and Alfred Russel Wallace. |
| Robert Kett and the Norfolk Rising |
| Gill Barron uncovers the story of a long-maligned revolutionary. |
| Building the Green Valley |
| Re-enacting ancient farming systems is hard slog, finds Gill Barron. |
| A Deep Green Resistance |
| Adam Herriot introduces a book that seeks to inspire a movement. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| Another Hand-Out to the Gentry |
| Should change of use from barn to dwelling be permitted development? |
| One Planet Council |
| One Planet Developers gird their loins. |
| View from England |
| Simon Fairlie considers whether low impact development is easier in Wales or in England. |
| And a Small Cabin Build There |
| A court case sends shock waves through the Irish planning system. |
| Will Fortune’s Case Favour the Brave? |
| Davis Mooney and Eileen Flanagan on Wicklow CC v Fortune. |
| Housing Scrapbook |
| Homelessness is a crime in many US cities. Will that approach spread to Europe/ |
| Fairways and Foul |
| An unnecessary golf course is rebuffed by an inspired paragraph of case law. |
| Happy Ending to a Sorry Tale |
| Hopefully we conclude our 15 year coverage of the Morlands site at Glastonbury. |
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The Land Issue 14 Summer 2013
| COMMENT |
| Post Resistante |
| The Trouble with 'Peasants' |
| Sustainable Intensification |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
| Seed Saving - Carbeth - Satyagraha - Squatting - Pig Swill campaign - Ducks in China - Lord Golf - Euro Land Grabs - Duchies’ Dirty Tricks - A Rural Occupation - Dark Times on Sark |
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| PERMACULTURE |
| The Big Rock Candy Mountain. |
| Peter Harper suggests taking the cult out of permaculture. |
| Permaculture: Back to Basics? |
| Simon Fairlie asks Patrick Whitefield whether permaculture has lost the plot. |
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| REWILDING: GRASSLANDS AND UPLANDS |
| Will Rewilding Work? |
| Bill Grayson reviews George Monbiot’s 'Feral'. |
| Rewilding and Food Security. |
| Simon Fairlie on the “sheepwrecked” uplands of Wales. |
| Rewilding in Retrospect. |
| Helen Baczkowska discusses progress in Norfolk and beyond. |
| Neoliberals and Nature. |
| Mark Fisher investigates unaccountable conservation funding. |
| Common Problems, Common Muddles and Common Sense. |
| Bill Lloyd explains commons registration. |
| What Future for Britain’s Native Ponies? |
| David Anthony Murray. |
| Moving to Pastures New. |
| John Turner on a new livestock farming initiative. |
| Fescue to the Rescue. |
| Richard Brown describes a new multi-tasking grass hybrid. |
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| LAND AND MONEY |
| Land, Debt and Jubilee. |
| Mike Hannis highlights the long and troubled history of farm debt. |
| The Natural Capital Myth. |
| Sian Sullivan explains how nature is being reinvented as money. |
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| In Praise of Quarries. |
| Let’s go back to using local stone, says Simon Fairlie |
| In Search of the English Cadastre. |
| Simon Fairlie pursues the holy grail of land registration. |
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| BOOK REVIEWS |
| Of Wolves, Words and Wilderness. |
| Utopia’s National Archives. |
| Gill Barron enjoys a new history of communal living in Britain. |
| Economics and Land. |
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| Not Very Universal Credit. |
| Cathy Ashley warns that benefit changes may penalise smallholders. |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Ecological Land Co-op Appeal Victory |
| Keeping the Blue Finger Green |
| Use Class Changes |
| Portmeadow Before and After |
| Appeals and Planning Decisions |
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The Land Issue 13 Winter 2012-13
| COMMENT |
| An Appetite for Insurrection |
| Free to be Deluded |
| The Two-Pronged Fork |
| Welcome La Via Campesina |
| Mud and Ashes |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
| GM labelling in the USA; Défense Paysanne; Hastings Road Protest; UK Food Securoty Summit; Good Food March to Brussels; LVT Private Member's Bill; Agricultural Minimum Wage abolished; Hay becomes a Commodity; Licence to Drill. |
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| REVIEW ARTICLE |
| Green Conservatism |
| Mike Hannis finds Roger Scruton still regretting the French Revolution. |
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| LAND GRABS |
| Enclosure on the Grand Scale |
| The similarities between landgrabbing and the enclosure of English Commons. |
| Assault on Peasantry |
| Food security is the ideological pretext for an attack on food sovereignty. |
| Why the Rush? |
| Tania Murray Li explores the discourse behind the land bonanza. |
| Journey through Sugarland |
| Fred Pearce’s quest for the bitter truth behind this favourite indulgence. |
| The Aftermath of an SEZ |
| Michael Levien documents the impacts of an Indian land grab on a rural economy. |
| CAP in Hand |
| Ed Hamer explains how farm subsidies lead to land concentration. |
| Land and Power in Scotland |
| Andy Wightman reveals how an ancient scam has survived so long. |
| Per Ardua Cadastre |
| Long-suppressed registers of landowners are being dragged back into the light. |
| What William Wrought. |
| Paul Kingsnorth uncovers the story of resistance to the Norman landgrab. |
| The First Green Guerrillas |
| Paul Kingsnorth reinterprets the Green Men. |
| Better a Bagger than a Grabber |
| Squat your own plot and get digging, urges Gill Barron. |
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| FARMING |
| Dairy Miles |
| Simon Fairlie examines the distribution problems of large dairy farms, and the benefits of small ones. |
| Fertility Farm Revisited |
| Pioneer livestock farmer Frank Newman Turner’s experiments still excite Graham Harvey. |
| Wwoof’s Green Shoots |
| Gill Barron celebrates a new generation of willing workers on the land. |
| The Return of Farm Service |
| Simon Fairlie inspects an old farmworkers’ contract, and finds it still good. |
| ICBINO responses |
| Feedback on the organic labelling controversy from Tim Deane. The Land replies. |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Best Kept for a Few |
| The new best practice guide for One Planet Development in Wales. |
| Four Year Rule Under Attack |
| More problems for people building surreptitious shacks. |
| All Change for the NPPF |
| We’re still trying to work out what the National Planning Policy Framework entails. |
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The Land Issue 12 Summer 2012
| COMMENT |
| The Future 'We' Want |
| The Rothamsted GM Debate |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
| Action on Land Grabs; Farmers on the Streets in Berlin: Occupy the Wilderness; ACTA |
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| A LIVING ON THE LAND |
| I Can't Believe It's Not Organic |
| A new DIY producers' association is germinating. |
| Little Black Tractor |
| Imagining a saner future where it's the chemical-mongers who get labelled... |
| The ‘O’ Word - Use It Or Lose It |
| Phil Sumption reports on current affairs in the Organic world. |
| The Small Farmer Speaks |
| Lynn Miller calls for an agricultural renaissance, small time. |
| The Vegetarian Pig |
| Local waste problems could be solved in your back yard, says Gill Barron |
| Parkinson’s Law of the Countryside |
| A classic look at the rural-urban divide. In 32 years, has anything changed? |
| Return of the Gangmasters |
| They’ve always been bad news, as Philip Conford and Jeremy Burchardt explain. |
| Can Britain Farm Itself? |
| Ed Hamer asks the Big Questions |
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| PRACTICAL EDUCATION |
| Beyond Attachment Parenting |
| Education is more than 9 to 5 school, says Jennifer Stoady. |
| The Child’s Right to Work |
| Learning to make a living is important too. |
| Growing Up Dystechnic |
| Simon Fairlie explains why a new skills-based curriculum would be handy. |
| Geography of the Egocentric |
| The Earth doesn’t revolve around humanity. Simon Fairlie pays his respects. |
| Hands, Heart, Head |
| Celebrating a book which puts a spanner in the cerebral works. |
| A Hammer and a Horse |
| A traveller discusses the pros and cons of extramural education. |
| Of Daffodils and Farmers |
| Teaching young farmers to appreciate poetry is an eye-opener, says Charlotte Fairlie. |
| Ask a Better Question |
| Annkatrin Hendry looks at the How and What of school systems. |
| Playground Robbery |
| Nigel Gann exposes a Government land-grab. |
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| Offsetting Nature? |
| Mike Hannis and Sian Sullivan examine the ideas behind DEFRA’s habitat banking scheme. |
| Reversing Beeching’s Legacy |
| Daniel Casey asks why all the little railways don’t join up. |
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| SPORTS PAGES |
| Three Yawns for the Olympics |
| For most people, the Olympics are just not sporting. Gill Barron expostulates. |
| Lord Golf’s Estates |
| The Ornamental Hermit on how sport holds the fort for a secret landowner. |
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| The Feedback Loop |
| Readers respond to ‘The Future of our Forests’ |
| The Legalities of Buying Land |
| Cathy Ashley explains why solicitors might be useful after all. |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Thirty Eight Words |
| What will the National Policy Planning Framework mean for low impact development? |
| Appeals and Planning decisions; Squatting update |
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The Land Issue 11 Winter 2011-12
| COMMENT |
| The Great Bovine TB Cover-up |
| Cute badgers, sick cows, and unhelpful rules. |
| Greenest Government Ever? |
| No prizes for guessing the answer. |
| Get Real |
| It’s time the countryside occupied the Stock Exchange. |
| NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES |
| Wikileaks Exposes GM lobbying; WTO Claims Free Markets Bring Food Security; Fighting Back against Land Grabbing; Profiting from Rising Food Prices; Good News on CAP?; Occupy Everywhere |
| ARE WE REALLY GODS? |
| Another God Delusion?. |
| Mike Hannis on the pessimism of Mark Lynas. |
| Open Source Biotech |
| Can we resist GM if it goes viral? asks Simon Fairlie. |
| THE FUTURE OF FORESTS |
| A Sense of Ownership |
| Robin Maynard puts the case for keeping forests public. |
| In Woods We Trust |
| Dave Bangs wonders which side the NGOs are on. |
| Who Needs It? |
| Mike Abbott thinks we could do without the Forestry Commission. |
| Could Try Harder |
| Mike Gardner speaks up for independent foresters. |
| The More we are Together |
| Can subdivision of woodlands lead to their cohesion? |
| Small Woodland Livings |
| Getting back to work in the woods. |
| “Britain’s New Forest Villages” |
| Accommodation for forest workers, past and present. |
| Seeing the Forest, not Just the Trees |
| Trees are not the only vegetation, says Helen Baczkowska. |
| Tree Fetishism |
| Think before you plant, cautions Simon Fairlie. |
| Agroforestry in the UK |
| Ed Hamer finds that farming under trees can work very nicely. |
| Wood is Good? |
| Can it really be carbon neutral to burn wood in power stations, asks Mike Hannis. |
| Biomass — A Burning Issue |
| Nick Grant and Alan Clarke on the contradictions of biomass boilers. |
| Has Biochar Gone too Far? |
| Gill Barron gives a ground-level perspective on charcoal. |
| Back to the Trees |
| Robert Somerville, architect and timber framer, on using what we’ve got. |
| A Forest Uprising |
| Gill Barron finds a precedent for rural revolution. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| See You on the Streets, Amigos |
| Gill Barron’s outrage at the Tory’s squattting ban. |
| Land Registry Privatisation |
| The new Public Data Corporation will be more corporate than public. |
| Salad Days |
| The rise, fall and possible rebirth of the Land Settlement Association. |
| Tyrannosaurus Regs |
| Is there life after planning? No, there are building regulations, warns Simon Dale. |
| Blunt Instruments |
| How the BREEAM Code for Sustainable Homes discriminates against low impact dwellings. |
| Working Against Nature |
| Chapter 7 responds to Nick Grant and Alan Clarke. |
| One Planet Footprint |
| Simon Fairlie asks why no one is looking at edge-of-settlement One Planet Developments. |
| Planning Policy Framework |
| No one is taken in by the Tory presumption in favour of sustainable development. |
| Neighbourhood Planning on Exmoor |
| James Shorten reports on a pilot exercise in “localism”. |
| New Enforcement Powers |
| The Localism Act contains some worrying measures. |
| Development Control |
| Mostly concerning Mid Devon. |
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The Land Issue 10 Summer 2011 (Reprint)
| The 200th anniversary of the Luddite uprisings, and current technological controversies. |
| COMMENT |
| Thanks George, but No Thanks |
| Simon Fairlie laments George Monbiot's conversion to nuclear power. |
| The Inevitable Surplus of Offices |
| Is turning empty offices into homes a silly idea? |
| For All who from their Labours Rest |
| Meet the patron saint of precarious living. |
| NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES |
| CAP Payments Clear as Mud; Action on GMOs; Reclaim the Fields; Spelman’s Spoutings; Leaked G20 Report; University of East Anglia in a Spin |
| IN PRAISE OF LUDDITES |
| Mr Lud’s Song |
| Theo Simon traces the history of the Luddite revolt through its songs. |
| Fire Brand |
| As a public relations ploy, Ned Ludd was a brilliant success. |
| King Ludd in the Countryside |
| The rural south catches up with the northern uprisings. |
| Lessons from the Luddites |
| Kirkpatrick Sale on the contemporary relevance of the Luddite message. |
| Luddism through the Ages |
| Episodes from the Technology Resistance Movement. |
| From Techno to Tao |
| The Ornamental Hermit’s proposal for a post-materialist Arcadia. |
| Technology and Equity |
| Simon Fairlie explains why new agricultural technologies keep people poor. |
| Technology as if People Mattered |
| Appropriate is the key word, says Patrick Mulvany. |
| Four Reasons Why Technology Doesn’t Save Time |
| It creates as much work as it saves, argues Simon Fairlie. |
| Synthetic Biology |
| Jim Thomas describes a new techno threat to the land. |
| The Luddites and Biopolitics |
| David King discusses alarming new trends in the life sciences. |
| In Vitro |
| A new film explores the downside of techno babies. |
| Slow Evolution is Co-Evolution |
| Suggestions for a Luddite Manifesto for the 21st century. |
| The Material Impact of Cyberspace |
| Martin Pedersen and Nina Moeller investigate. |
| Man, Bytes, Dog |
| In 1984, James Gorman foresaw the coming of the pet home computer. |
| A Technological Recipe for Making Nature the Friend of Capital |
| Sian Sullivan explains what’s cooking. |
| INDIA |
| Gandhi on Technology |
| The world’s most successful Luddite discusses tactics. |
| Peepli Live |
| A village tragicomedy brings Indian agriculture to international attention. |
| The Largest Wave of Suicides in History |
| P Sainath on the epidemic of farmer suicides in India. |
| Impressions of the New India |
| Despite technology, India survives, reports Jyoti Fernandes. |
| Agricultural Futures |
| Ed Hamer on commodity speculation and its effects on agriculture. |
| Feedback on "Meat" |
| Feedback on Meat Simon Fairlie responds to people commenting on his treatment of carbon farming. |
| Romanian Reminiscences |
| Ingrid Glendenning tells it like it used to be. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| Localism |
| Chapter Seven’s guide to the great planning upheaval. |
| War Against the Poor |
| Scrapping squatting won’t cure the housing crisis, writes Adam Payne. |
| Look Out for Loppsi |
| Low impact living is under threat in France, reports Gill Barron. |
| Gentrifying Brutalism |
| Mike Hawkins reviews Owen Hatherley’s Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. |
| A Thousand Huts in Scotland |
| Reforesting Scotland launches a resurgence in forest dwellings. |
| Development control news |
| Land Matters get five more years |
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The Land Issue 9 Autumn 2010 OUT OF PRINT
| Local Good, Central Bad? |
| Should we welcome the Tory rhetoric about the local community? |
| High Speed Follies |
| Why advocates of roadbuilding have turned their attention to high speed rail |
| Making Anarchism Respectable |
| A tribute to Colin Ward, Britain's most persuasive anarchist |
| Biofuel Power Stations |
| Farm Subsidies; GM spuds |
| Guatemala Trade Unionists Murdered; Palestinian Olive Oil |
| Land and Conflict in Afghanistan |
| Michael Semple explains the background of land disputes behind the Afghan War |
| Carbon, the New Cash Crop |
| Will carbon offsets in farming undermine food security? asks Helena Paul |
| True Blue in the Countryside |
| Ed Hamer talks to Jim Paice, the new Tory minister for food and farming |
| Investigating England's Armpit |
| The Ornamental Hermit charts the landowners of the North West |
| Which Land Search |
| Cathy Ashley provides some tips on how the use the land registry |
| Is Urbanization a Temporary Phenomenon |
| Simon Fairlie wonders what is the point of cities |
| An Untutored Townsman's Invasion of the Countryside |
| Paul Kingsnorth moves out of town |
| Dumbo Meets the Hunt |
| Roger Scruton's accidental initiation into country sport |
| Superior Pedigree |
| An episode in the history of the British pony |
| No Place for the Young |
| Ed Hamer meets engineers of the rural exodus |
| "Not Our Core Business" |
| The Tories launch a renewed assault upon Somerset's county farms |
| Peak Phosphorus: A Crisis of Urbanization |
| Is ruralization or technofix the answer to the P problem? ask Simon Fairlie |
| Rethinking Reed Beds and WET Water Systems |
| Low-tech and local solutions for phosphate accumulation |
| REVIEW: Commonwealth |
| by Martin Large |
| REVIEW: Haytime in the Yorkshire Dales |
| edited by Don Gamble and Tanya St Pierre |
| REVIEW: Meat: A Benign Extravagance |
| by Simon Fairlie |
| Obituary |
| Sid Rawle |
| Letter to the editor |
| Peter Melchett of the Soil Association responds to the articles on soil carbon in The Land Issue 8 |
| What is Development? |
| Mike Hannis asks whether development has always involved separating people from the land |
| Open Source Planning |
| What will come of the Tory's radical proposals to reform the English planning system |
| Wales Adopts Low Impact Development |
| One Planet Development is now enshrined in Welsh planning policies |
| TAN 6: A Model for England to Follow |
| The new Welsh rural planning guidance is quite sensible |
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The Land Issue 8 Winter 2009
| Who Knows Who Owns Britain? |
| Why is it so hard to find out who owns land in the UK? |
| Arse About Face |
| The European system for regulating organic and “conventional” farming has perverse consequences. |
| Peasants at Copenhagen |
| Ed Hamer reflects on the recent climate summit. |
| The Myth of Resource Efficiency |
| Mike Hannis on a new book that examines the Jevons Paradox. |
| FAO Backtrack on Livestock |
| The FAO is withdrawing from its anti-peasant stance of three years ago |
| Carbon Colonialism and the Mathematics of Methane |
| Simon Fairlie dissects hysteria about methane and livestock. |
| Ghost Carbon |
| Can organic farming capture more carbon in the soil than chemical farming? |
| Reclaim the Fields |
| As farmers get older and fewer, a new generation of European peasants is demanding access to land. |
| Big Country, Small Farms |
| Rebecca Laughton visits some mad US farmers. |
| Tomatoes All Year Round |
| The UK imports them from Morocco, but are there alternatives? |
| The Plough and The Spade |
| Christina Ballinger asks how the drive for allotments will affect local commercial growers. |
| New Allotments — Where Will They Go? |
| Will it be in a place which is convenient for consumers and growers |
| Land Value Taxation — Panacea or Placebo |
| Alanna Hartzok tackles questions about the wisdom of taxing land. |
| Keeping Occupied |
| Keith Hallack describes his life in a squat on a condemned East London estate. |
| Insurrection in the Hills |
| Ed Hamer reports on a revolt against the demolition of a bungalow in Exmoor National Park. |
| Keep Our Downs Public |
| We must stop our councils from selling off our most treasured spaces, says Dave Bangs. |
| Its Only Bondage was the Circling Sky |
| John Felstiner on poet John Clare whose parish was enclosed when he was 16. |
| Two Books |
| Patrick Whitefield on reading the landscape and Adrian Bell on the people who work in it. |
| When Will the Alpaca Bubble Burst? |
| If planning policy doesn’t change it could go on for ever, reckons Simon Fairlie. |
| Meadow End |
| Pat Kinnersley witnesses the demise of a bungalow. |
| Ground Control |
| Anna Minton on Hans Monderman, the traffic consultant who spoke out against guard rails |
| Planet Development |
| Chapter 7’s response |
| Lammas Springs into Life |
| Five months after getting permission, several families are already installed. |
| How Solid Is the Inspectorate? |
| A reader challenges Simon Fairlie’s view that it is a rock of sanity”. |
| Appeals |
| Another successful LID appeal in Pembrokeshire, and others. |
| Slim and Pricey |
| We assess Field to Farm, a new book for smallholders seeking residential planning permission. |
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