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English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.

English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.

Dan Saladino talks to shepherd James Rebanks about the future of food and farming.

The Food Programme · BBC Radio 4

October 11, 202028m 36s

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Show Notes

Dan Saladino visits shepherd and writer James Rebanks whose farm in Cumbria spans three generations. What does can that history teach us about where food and farming go next?

In his latest book English Pastoral: An Inheritance James Rebanks provides an insiders account of the seismic changes to farming from the 1960s to the present day. Farming became brilliantly productive, he argues , but ecologically destructive. He explains how Cumbria's landscape was transformed by more intensive agriculture, and what we can do now to bring life back to the soil, to natural habitats and still the produce the food we need.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.