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 humanityFarming 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.
