Ecoagriculture for a More Sustainable Food Future
Ecoagriculture for a More Sustainable Food Future
by Nicole Chalmer
Regenerative agriculture meets indigenous wisdom in a new paradigm that could help us move towards a more sustainable future.
Based on six years of PhD research, two years of further research and editing and nearly 40 years of practical experience as a farmer.
According to the foreword by author Charles Massy, it’s “an important and timely book. It deserves to become a change agent in rethinking our food and farming systems and our attitudes to nature and landscapes in this country - and indeed further afield… a must read for anyone concerned about the future.”
In a time when agriculture is faced with numerous threats - global warming, changes in hydrological cycles, land degradation and loss of community and culture in rural areas - this book offers an insight into how things were before and after European settlement, where we went right and where we maybe went wrong.
The solution presented here is not a technical one, nor does it depend on the mobilisation of vast and costly resources. Instead, it calls for a cultural shift, a change in the way that we think and feel about nature and value earth’s systems. By integrating wisdoms derived from thousands of years of indigenous land management into our modern agricultural systems, we can undertake a more intuitive, reflexive approach to how we produce and consume food, regenerate ecological systems and sustain ourselves, as part of nature, long-term.
