With Climate Week on the horizon, join us for a conversation with Hugh Locke, author of Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation. Hugh will be joined in conversation by counselor, author, and teacher Nancy Rosanoff.

Whole Earth Farming is a book for anyone who wants to know what happens when smallholder farming, regenerative agriculture and spiritual principles converge. It is a book filled with hope and a practical approach to transforming agriculture.

About Whole Earth Farming

"Hugh Locke’s efforts with the Smallholder Farmers Alliance have been nothing short of extraordinary – and in Whole Earth Farming, he shares the lessons he’s learned with both rigorous evidence and genuine humanity." — President Bill Clinton

In Whole Earth Farming, Hugh Locke introduces the one quarter of humanity hidden in plain sight: 475 million smallholder farming families who have quietly fed the world for generations while remaining almost entirely invisible. He makes the audacious claim that these same smallholders could soon be leading an agricultural revolution with the power to alter the course of life on our planet.

This unusual story line runs from the Tonight Show and fractals to Buckingham Palace and rubber farms in Thailand, from ancient traditional wisdom to artificial intelligence. Drawing on decades of work at the nexus of global affairs and grassroots agriculture — from chairing meetings of heads of state at the United Nations to sitting with farmers in the fields of Haiti — Hugh weaves together Indigenous wisdom, contemporary ecological science, and spiritual principles for agriculture drawn from the Bahá'í Faith. The result is a vision of regenerative farming that, if adopted by just half of the world's smallholders, could produce all the additional food the world needs by 2050 while simultaneously reducing the net impact of climate change.

Included is a unique collection of 21 stories from 18 countries of farmers sharing their regenerative journeys. The book is written for anyone interested in food, farming, climate, justice, or the future of life on this planet, Whole Earth Farming is both a compelling manifesto for urgently needed transformation and a practical roadmap for making it real.

FOREWORD
Roy Steiner, Senior Vice President, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation

INTRODUCTION
Rainn Wilson, Emmy Award-nominated actor, author of the New York Times bestselling Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

About Hugh Locke

Hugh Locke has spent his career working at the nexus of environmental conservation, international development, humanitarian service and interfaith collaboration. Throughout, he has been drawn by the interplay between spiritual principles and the movements striving to improve the human condition. Central to his worldview is the understanding of our planet as a unified, interconnected system, a perspective given further dimension by membership in the Bahá’í Faith. Since co-founding the Smallholder Farmers Alliance in Haiti in 2010, he has directed this range of experience toward smallholder agriculture, becoming a recognized advocate for regenerative farming and smallholder farmer empowerment. He has worked directly with farmers in the fields of Haiti and has supported a wide range of NGOs, philanthropists and institutions in targeting resources toward smallholder regenerative agriculture globally. He currently leads a program using artificial intelligence to make smallholder regenerative field research freely available and translated into multiple languages. He continues a very active role in championing the legacy of his mentor, the forester and global conservationist Richard St. Barbe Baker, and ensuring that the lessons of St. Barbe's lifetime of work remain a living force in how we care for our planet's forests. Hugh is president of the Impact Farming Foundation and serves on the board of the global reforestation nonprofit One Tree Planted.

Contact the host of Environmental Book Talk: Whole Earth Farming by Hugh Locke, in conversation with Nancy Rosanoff