"Our ignorance of the soil really impedes our efforts to reach what I see as the holy grail here, which is low-impact, high-yield farming. There's plenty of high-impact, high-yield farming, and plenty of low-impact, low-yield farming, but neither of those are the answers that we need to find. We have this enormously challenging thing that we face, that we have to feed 8, and one day 9 or 10 billion people, while trying to bring that system back within planetary boundaries."
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George Monbiot is a columnist for the Guardian, and an investigative environmental reporter. He’s in some cases barely lived to tell the tale while writing about forced migration in Indonesia, peasant movements in Brazil, assaults on nomadic people in Kenya and Tanzania, and the illegal traffic in mahogany, including to Buckingham Palace.
He’s the author most recently of Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life, and Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet.
He received a UN Global 500 Award from Nelson Mandela.
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Links:
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People: https://www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/the-cruel-fantasies-of-well-fed-people/
Grazed and Confused: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/reports/fcrn_gnc_report.pdf
