Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction, but we can feed the world without devouring the planet by understanding the world beneath our feet. George Monbiot's book "Regenesis" offers a vision of a new future for food and humanity, where the tiniest life forms can help us make peace with the planet and restore its living systems.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 25 May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

The Sunday Times bestseller, Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year, This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food. Kate Raworth, From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity. Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction—and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticize urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced, and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans 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 resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet. Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. 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 the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionizing our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from ploughs and poisons; 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, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.

Weight: 260g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780141992990