Sixty Harvests Left

SIXTY HARVESTS LEFT… OR A FUTURE-PROOF PLANET AND FOOD SYSTEM?

Our world is at a critical crossroads. And the choices are ours to make – only 60 more harvests? Or a future-proof food system and planet? 

The global food system – largely based on factory farming and our insatiable demand for meat – is killing our world. But transforming this devastating system is possible. And Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future points the way. 

This new book, from award-winning author Philip Lymbery, is the first to reveal that factory farming is as big a threat to humanity as climate change. Using detailed research, compelling stories and insightful analysis, Philip paints a vivid picture of the climate, nature and health emergencies humankind faces.  The solutions he presents have the regenerative, nature-positive farming focus on soil and the interconnectedness of all life on our planet. 

Sixty Harvests Left is already being celebrated as a must-read life-changing and world-saving publication. 

• The Country Man – Country Books
• Country Life – Going round in crop circles
• The Telegraph – Why veganism isn’t the way to fix the environment
• Yahoo – Why veganism isn’t the way to fix the environment
• The Northern Farmer – Time is running out if we continue as we are
• Critical Eye – The Grocer 
• The Argus
• The New York Times
• Writer’s Review by Linda Newbury
• The Tablet
• Ox Veg
• Talk Markets
• Sarx
• Sixty Plus Surfers
• Vegan Sustainability Magazine
• Plant Based News – Existential Threat Of The Food System Laid Bare In New Book
• Sixty Harvests Left: Regenerating our planet and ourselves
• ECOS – challenging conservation
• Literature: books of the week – Different Magazine
• Goodreads
• FE Leisure – ‘Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly’ by Philip Lymbery tells how governments can transform the global food system
• Ark Mag

2024

• 31^st Jan: Facebook Live with Joanna Lumley (online)
• 7^th Feb: Residence Palace, Brussels
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Animal Welfare in World Religion  
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, The Politics of Food
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival: Cultivated Meat – will it help our Future? 
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Farming 
• 11^th April: Harting Society
• 22nd April: 5 x 15 event (online)
• 21^st May: Farm Animal Congress, Brazil (online)
• 31^st May: Hay Festival, Wales
• 1-3^rd Oct: Eurogroup Conference, Brussels
• 4^th Oct: Eastbourne Food Partnership Summit
• 21^st Oct: Good Farm Animal Awards. Paris
• 28^th Oct: ICCAW: China
• 22-23^rd Nov: Sustainable Food Conference, Somerset

2023

• 25/26^th March 2023 Oxford Literary Festival, 4 events
• 28^th March 2023 Residence Palace, Brussels
• 12^th April Eco River Rother Group, Hants
• 14^th April 2023 La Feltrinelli Librerie, Italy.
• 26^th April 2023 Jesus College, Cambridge
• 29^th May 2023 Hay Festival
• 4^th June 2023 Peter Singer,  Hackney Empire
• 7^th June 2023 Eurogroup Annual Conference, Brussels
• 23^rd June 2023 Eden Project, Cornwall.
• 24^th June 2023 Wealden Festival
• 24^th-27^th July 2023 UN Food Stocktaking Summit, Rome
• Tuesday 1^st August 2023 Probus Club, Henley
• 6^th August 2023 Wilderness Festival
• 13^th September 2023 Clean Kitchen, Battersea.
• 15^th September 2023 West Sussex Sustainability Group
• 19^th September 2023 Vegan Summit, online
• 30^th September 2023 Ferrara Book Festival, Italy
• 3^rd October 2023 Sustainable Investment Summit, Istanbul
• 5^th October 2023 European Parliament, Strasbourg
• 10^th November 2023 Kindfest (online)

MEDIA INFO – Press Releases

• Sixty Harvests Left – Press Release UK
• Sixty Harvests Left – Press Release GLOBAL

Facts & Figures

GLOBAL
• 60 Harvests Left—In 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN predicted there were only 60 harvests left due to loss of topsoil.
• 37% of greenhouse gas emissions globally are caused by our food and the way we produce it.
• Since 1990, 25% of bee species have disappeared from records.
• According to the United Nations ‘95% of our food is directly or indirectly produced on our soils’
• Three-quarters of all human diseases originated from animals.
• The world has seen an average 68% drop in mammals, birds, fish, reptile and amphibian populations.
• Bees are essential for the pollination of 75% of all our food crops worldwide.
• The demise of antibiotics could lead to 10 million deaths globally annually.
• 36% of all the edible crop harvest, enough calories to sustain 4 billion people, is used for animal feed’.
• UN estimates suggest that the amount of meat wasted every year is equivalent to 15 billion animals being reared, slaughtered and binned.

UK
• British agriculture is responsible for 10% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
• More than 40% of species in Britain have declined since 1970, while one in every seven of its wildlife species faces extinction.
• In the UK, where 55% of cropland is used to grow animal feed, a third of that land could provide 62 million adults a year with their five daily
recommended portions of fruit and vegetables.
• From just a few of sites about 50 years ago, more than 200 fish farms now operate in Scotland, producing more than 200,000 tonnes of salmon worth over a billion pounds a year.
• New research reveals US-style mega-farm numbers have risen to nearly 1,100, including 745 poultry mega-farms in England and 59 in Wales, bringing into question the country’s claim to be a nation of animal lovers.
• This UK mega-farm total is almost certainly an underestimate as official data for pig and poultry units in Scotland were unavailable due to cyberattack.

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Testimonials

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