Six Steps Back to the Land: Why we need small mixed farms and millions more farmers

An exploration into how we can have truly sustainable, resilient and productive farms.

In the 1930s, nutritionists claimed that the increase in population size would soon make it challenging to eat enough protein, which they thought was only obtainable from meat. Mercifully, this is not true. Although meat does offer a nutritional bonus, we do not need vast amounts of it and could get all our protein from plants. The world has lots of food problems still – from issues surrounding fertile soi...