Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets

Human, Animal and Planetary Health
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-68435-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.

How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop a sustainable food system, this book argues for a radical change in farming and food consumption. Containing contributions from world renowned experts, this book promotes regenerative farming as the means to preserve planetary health, establish sustainable, healthy and secure diets and safeguard the welfare of animals. Chapters discuss broad ranging issues from climate change and biodiversity conservation to animal sentience and intensive farming, and the role of financial markets and food businesses. The book concludes with chapters discussing the routes in policy and practice to transforming the food system and achieving real-world change.

This book is a must read for students, scholars and policymakers interested in establishing sustainable farming and food systems, for human health, animal welfare and environmental protection.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Silva, Joyce

McKenna, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Landwirtschaftsrecht, Forst-, Jagd- und Fischereirecht
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Tierhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).