Working with Nature

From cocoa farming in Trinidad to the fruit orchards of Kent, a positive approach to sustaining the landscape yields plenty of practical benefits. Jeremy Purseglove explains how we can harvest the earth's resources as long as we do so carefully: how we can moderate the palm oil plantations destroying the forests of Borneo, the irrigated cotton crops draining the Aral Sea, or cereal agribusiness already dominating the British countryside and now sweeping across Africa. Offering solutions at ...