Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets

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.

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).

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