An overview by Chris Smaje of his forthcoming book A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self- Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth, focusing particularly on the need to rethink our approach to market trade and economic exchange as the basis of society; and on the political forces operating in the crisis conditions of today’s world which are forcing that rethink. Chris will discuss the agricultural implications of this in relation to the late David Fleming’s ideas about a ‘lean’ localism of the future, with input from David’s editor Shaun Chamberlin, and from Rebecca Laughton on developments in the small farm sector in Britain today.

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