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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

Joyce’s book, Remembering Peasants , sets out to document this fast-vanishing population, which has been devastated by social change, war and the relentless expansion of industrial agriculture. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows.”

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