Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets Human, Animal and Planetary Health

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Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction: Extinction or Regeneration? Humanity has the choice

Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna

Part 1: The Urgency of Food Systems Change

1.     Why our Children’s Future Depends on a Global Agreement on Food, Climate, and Animal Welfare

Philip Lymbery

2.     Addressing Power and Poverty in a Crisis-Prone Food System

Olivier De Schutter, Chantal Wei-Ying Clément and Nick Jacobs

3.     Accelerating the SDGs: The Opportunity of Agrifood Systems Transformation

Stefanos Fotiou and Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns

4.     Food Systems Futures and How to Achieve Them

Tim Benton

5.     Preventing and Preparing for Pandemics: Why Food Systems Must Transform

Melissa Leach

Part 2: Planetary Health

6.     The Global Food System Can and Must Be Transformed to Respect Planetary Boundaries

Katherine Richardson and Jakob Fritzbøger Christensen

7.     Regenerative Management of Agroecosystem Soils to Minimise Extinction Risks and for Climate and Food Security

Rattan Lal

Part 3: Human Health and Sustainable Diets

8.     Eating Plant-Based for Better Health

Shireen Kassam

9.     Intensive Farming and the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis

Cóilín Nunan

10.    Transforming Chinese Agrifood Systems to Achieve Sustainable Healthy Diets

Shenggen Fan and Xiaolong Feng

11.   The Environmental Benefits of Vegan Pet Food

Andrew Knight

Part 4: Animal Health and Welfare

12.   One Biology, Sustainable and Regenerative Farming: A Role for Pig and Poultry Production?

Donald M. Broom

13.   Understanding Sentient Minds, Darwin, Humpty Dumpty and the Buddha

John Webster

14.   Culture in Sentient Beings: Purpose, Evolution, Conservation

Carl Safina

Part 5: Regenerative Farming and Agroecology: the Future of Farming

15.   Compassion: the Foundation of Regenerative Farming

Vandana Shiva

16.   Regenerating Agriculture, Ecosystems and Climate

André Leu

17.   Achieving a Peaceful and Verdant Future: a Farmer’s Perspective

Seth Watkins

18.   How Agroecology is Mitigating the Worst Effects of Climate Change in Tanzania

Janet Maro

19.   Can Dairy Farming be Part of the Solution?

David Finlay

20.   Poultry-Centred Regenerative Agriculture: Tree- range® Chicken Farming

Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin

21.   Regenerative farming without farmed animals

Amir Kassam and Laila Kassam

22.   Aquaculture must be part of the shift towards regenerative farming

Natasha Boyland and Elena Lara

Part 6: Routes to Food Systems Transformation

Changing the financial architecture

23.   Countering Corporate and Financial Concentration in the Global Food System

Jennifer Clapp

24.   Global Economic Benefits of Eating Better

Steven Lord, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Debbora Leip, Hermann Lotze-Campen and Michael S. Crawford

25.   Shifting Bank Funding away from Factory Farming

Peter Stevenson

Changing food business

26.   Putting Sentience into Food Policy

Henry Dimbleby

27.   The Role of Business in a Food System Fit for the Future

Laura Strangeway and Tracey Jones

28.   Food as the Problem, Food as the Solution

James Bailey

29.   Holistic Frameworks for Sustainability in Food and Farming

Lesley Mitchell, Fabia Bromovsky, Richard Kipling and Emily Lewis-Brown

Changing Minds to Change Policies
 

30.   What is Needed for Transformation?

Molly Anderson 

31.   The Earth will Tell us

Ruud Zanders

32.   How to Achieve National Plant-Based Policies: the Case of Denmark

Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl

33.   The Conscious Food Systems Alliance: Inner Capacities for Regenerative Food Systems

Thomas Legrand and Noemi Altobelli

34.   Native American Regenerative Food and Land Management Systems

Lyla June Johnston

Conclusion: Moving from extinction to securing regeneration: the mission of a movement

Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna

Index

Biography

Joyce D’Silva is Ambassador Emeritus for Compassion in World Farming and its former CEO. She has Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Keele and Winchester. She is the author of Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice (Routledge 2023), rated a “powerful book” (Christiana Figueres) and “profoundly thought-provoking” (Joanna Lumley).

Carol McKenna is Special Advisor to Compassion in World Farming’s Global CEO. Her role includes leading projects such as the Extinction and Regeneration Conference on which this book is based (www.extinctionconference.com). She is a Trustee of the Eating Better Alliance (www.eating-better.org) and co-editor of Farming Food and Nature: Respecting Animals, People and the Environment (Routledge 2018).

“This must read book emphasises the importance of regenerative farming, agroforestry and  permaculture.  These methods of farming work with rather than against nature, restore biodiversity, help to and slow down climate change. They can become truly sustainable and feed us for generations to come.” 

Jane Goodall,  PhD, DBE, Founder - the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

“This inspiring book cuts through so much of today's wretched jargon about regenerative farming, and tells it as it is: it's impossible to regenerate agriculture today without significantly reducing meat consumption”

Jonathon Porritt, Campaigner and Author.

“If Earth is to have a future, humans will need to live differently within the web of life that feeds us. This future will like a liberation, if only we can unlock it. The keys to tomorrow’s plates are in this wide-ranging, challenging, surprising, and ultimately hopeful collection of some of the planet’s finest thinkers on the future of food.” 

Raj Patel, author, film-maker and academic.