Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Long View 3. Soil: The Life Support System 4. Wildlife and our Food 5. Developing New Approaches to Wildlife Management 6. Reflections on Water 7. Understanding and Accepting Complexity 8. The View from the Farm 9. A Way forward

About the Author

Chris Stoate is an agro-ecologist specialising in identifying synergies between agricultural and environmental objectives within lowland farming systems at a range of scales. He is Head of Research at the Allerton Project research and demonstration farm and has worked for the project since it was established by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 1992. Chris is an Honorary Professor with the University of Nottingham and a farmer in his own right, and has worked in southern Europe and West Africa as well as in the UK.