The question of how to feed humanity a nourishing and sustainable diet while protecting and restoring biodiversity and ensuring a stable climate continues to be one of the most pressing – as well as the most fascinating – challenges of our time. And whether or not we succeed in answering this over the century ahead will of course have a major bearing on all our lives and the future of the planet itself.

Eat the Planet Well, by Dave Goulson – ably assisted by his wife, Lara Goulson, whose recipe section is one of the most generous and welcome codas to a book imaginable – is an incisive, ...

 

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