The Land Issue 31

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OPINION
 
Out of the Frying Pan
 
Breaking the Landlock
 
NET ZERO NEWS
Emissions Gap Ruled Illegal; Beam It Down, Scotty; Shock Brokers; Nuclear Cakeism.
 
Down on the Carbon Plantation
with Mike Hannis
 
Feeding Britain.
 
SHELTER
 
World Without Concrete.
It’s coming, so let’s embrace it, says Simon Fairlie.
 
Naturally Better Building.
Tom Woolley has some suggestions.
 
Taming Nature
often gets overdone in pursuit of grandiose visions, says tree surgeon Andrew Stewart.
 
INTERNATIONAL
 
‘Hunting Africa’: Trophy Hunting, Neocolonialism and Land.
Sian Sullivan joins the dots.
 
The Abandoned Land of Opportunity.
A tasty tale of co-operation from Italy, told by Dan Saladino
 
FOOD AND FARMING
 
The Wisdom of Uninvited Guests.
Chris Maughan invites everyone to map weeds as indicators of soil health.
 
Dispatches from the Tweed Front.
Ed Coate reads some dusty runes on the future of UK farming.
 
The Fat Gap.
Bojana Bajželj, Federica Laguzzi and Elin Röös scrutinise the sustainability of edible oils and fats.
 
Fat Wars.
Gill Barron sizes up the opposing forces.
 
Tractosaurus Rex.
Jess Davies and John Quinton are unimpressed by agricultural giants.
 
Tricky Pickings.
A scrumping tale from Clipper Dick.
 
A Neo-Distributist Proposal.
Chris Smaje finds inspiration in a half-forgotten political movement.
 
REVIEWS AND CULTURE
 
Monbiotic Man.
Simon Fairlie reviews George Monbiot’s Regenesis.
 
Anarchism, Anthropology and Agroecology.
Chris Smaje remembers Marshall Sahlins.
 
It’s about the Countryside, not the Country.
Holly Marriott Webb takes a classic modern play literally.
 
Not the People’s Flower Show.
Greg Sachno’s trip to Chelsea gets him thinking.
 
Advice on Community from an Anarchist Icon.
Evergreen wisdom from Peter Kropotkin, no less.
 

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