A Small Farm Future

“We are facing an existential crises—with species extinction, climate catastrophes, desertification of soil, disappearance of water, pandemics of infectious and chronic diseases, hunger and malnutrition. Industrialized, globalized agriculture based on the myth that it feeds the world is driving the multiple, interconnected crisis. Eighty percent of the food we eat comes from small farms. Chris Smaje’s A Small Farm Future shows that the choice is clear. Either we will have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction.”—Vandana Shiva, author of Oneness vs 1% 

“A Small Farm Future makes plain that the next thirty years will look very different to the last thirty. Yet Smaje’s unique integration of big-picture insight and hard-won experience clears the fog, brilliantly revealing reliable and meaningful paths forward, even as the ground shifts beneath our feet.”—Shaun Chamberlin, editor of Lean Logic and Surviving the Future

 “This book is such a treat. In an era of generalized crisis, Chris Smaje articulates an appealing, beautiful vision of the future. Chris has walked the talk, which makes his plea all the more powerful and convincing.”—Dr. Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

“On one side we have science-based high-tech with neoliberal economics, driven by the perceived need to control nature and to maximize material wealth; and on the other are traditional human skills and values. Whether it’s dressed in the trappings of communism or capitalism or autocracy or democracy, the former is undoubtedly winning. Governments and their chosen advisers the world over equate high tech and measurable economic ‘growth’ with progress. But the dominance of what now passes as modernity is killing us all. The methods it gives rise to and the mindset behind it are at the root of all the world’s crises. What we need now above all else is food production based on small farming—albeit assisted by excellent science and sometimes by high tech; feeding into localized economies; and deployed with true concern for the welfare of humanity and our fellow creatures. Chris Smaje, a sociologist-cum-anthropologist turned smallholder, is showing us exactly what is needed and why. A timely and valuable book—and a very readable read.”—Colin Tudge, co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference and the College for Real Farming and Food Culture; author, The Great Re-Think

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