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 stunning first glimpse at a new future for food and humanity.

Agriculture is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and it's the subject we're least prepared to discuss. We criticize urban development, but agriculture takes up thirty times more land. We have plowed, enclosed, and grazed great expanses of the planet, cutting down forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.

Now the food system itself is beginning to fail. But, as George Monbiot shows in this brilliant, rigorously original new book, we can resolve our greatest dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet.

*Regenesis* is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and 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 unleashing these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionizing our understanding of fertility, through the perennial grain breeders, freeing land from ploughs and poisons, to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the smallest forms of life could help us reconcile with the planet, rebuild its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regeneration.

Pages: 352, Dimensions: 13x13cm