A recent wave of sustainability claims confidently dictate how, for what, and where we ought to use land for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Nikki Yoxall, a self proclaimed regenerative landscape manager walks through her thinking on land use decision making and responds to these critiques.

Episode Links

• Food without agriculture, Nature Sustainability
• Guthman on the problems with localism
• DeLind on the problems with localism
• Phil Loring – deeper meaning of regen ag
• Understanding Ag team in the US
• Paige Stanley's rangelands research
• Pasture for Life
• Remembering David Stanley
• Carbon Cowboys Network
• Samantha Mosier article on evidence of benefits of Adaptive Multi-Paddock Grazing
• Soilmentor
• Highlands Rewilding
• Hannah Ritchie introducing her new book
• An environmentalist gets lunch – Hannah Ritchie
• The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People, George Monbiot
• EU project on livestock futures

Landscapes is produced by Adam Calo. A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam's newsletter: Land Food Nexus.

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Music by Blue Dot Sessions: "Kilkerrin" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).