SIXTY HARVESTS LEFT

Powerful purposeful and persuasive This book is transformative We must read mark and learn fast Michael Morpurgo A call to action to change our world from the ground up A vitally necessary book Isabella Tree Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we ve made in our food system but he has bold and inspiring solutions to offer too Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall Taking its title from a chilling warning made by the United Nations that the world s soils could be lost within a lifetime Sixty Harvests Left uncovers how the food industry is threatening the planet Put simply without soils there will be no food game over And time is running out From the United Kingdom to Italy from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA Philip Lymbery the internationally acclaimed author of Farmageddon goes behind the scenes of industrial farming and confronts Big Agriculture where mega farms chemicals and animal cages are sweeping the countryside and jeopardising the air we breathe the water we drink the food we eat and the nature that we treasure In his investigations however he also finds hope in the pioneers who are battling to bring landscapes back to life who are rethinking farming methods rediscovering traditional