Global warming, resource depletion, rapid increase in environmental illness… our planet is in danger. And worldwide population growth is hardly helping anything!

And yet, the Earth could feed all of its inhabitants without continuing our mad dash towards chemical fertilizers and pesticides, without deforestation or land clearing. Because it is possible to produce more and better… with less! How? By taking maximum advantage of certain natural life mechanisms, by intensifying natural processes. For example, by stimulating the soil’s biological activity by pairing complementary crops, systematically recycling plant waste and fighting against pests by accentuating organic and integrated methods, etc. Changing the paradigm should concern not just the most productive conventional farmers, but poor family farms, as well.

Above and beyond specific techniques, the point of this book is to promote sustainable agriculture within the framework of ecosystems that are sustainable too, in order to achieve economically and socially viable societies.

Agriculture development that is both more productive and sustainable, ecological and fair can see the light of day, if we seek inspiration from nature itself, and how it works.