Books by Jules Pretty

Covers the history of agriculture since its ancient origins. This title examines the relationship between agriculture and the environment including agricultural contamination, greenhouse gases and climate change, environmental improvements and sustainability, integrated farming, landscape restoration and environmental goods and services.

Despite great progress in increasing productivity, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished, and further millions suffer for eating too much food or the wrong sort. This book envisages the expansion of a form of food production and consumption founded on ecological principles.