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 criticise 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 revolutionising 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.
