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Food Planet Future takes the reader on an extraordinary visual tour of everyday foods and in the process, connects us more deeply to the world we help to shape. It draws upon art, research, and innovative practices to reimagine the tangled crises of food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss. The book invokes awe and wonder and inspires action taken on our Earth's behalf.
Food Planet Future illustrates and describes practices, tools, knowledge, and research which, if implemented on a wide scale, could help reverse climate change threats and biodiversity loss. These include: no-till cultivation techniques, perennial planting, soil amendments such as rock dust, biochar, and compost, use of cover crops and prairie strips, rotational grazing of livestock, integration of tree crops with livestock, intercropping, prescribed burning, seawater agriculture, ecosystem restoration, new crop cultivars, and more.
It is imperative that we inform people about the best ideas to solve the food and climate breakdown. Food Planet Future invites readers to reimagine those possibilities.
Robert Dash is an educator, naturalist and photographer whose work features the complex textures and patterns of micro nature. His photographs have been published by National Geographic, TIME, Lenswork, and Buzzfeed. They have appeared in galleries and juried shows in the US and internationally. He was shortlisted for the Visura/UPI Grant for Storytelling On Climate Change, 2018. His images travelled as part of the international outdoor exhibition The FENCE. In 2017, Dash authored On an Acre Shy of Eternity: Micro Landscapes at the Edge, which won the Nautilus Book Awards Gold for Photography and Arts, and Best of Self-Published. In 2016 he presented the widely-viewed TEDx lecture, The Intercourse of Nature. His current travelling exhibition about food and climate change is entitled Food for Thought/ Micro Views of Sustenance: Threats and Prospects.
"Amazing visual feast with a terrific message!"
– David R. Montgomery Author, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations and Growing a Revolution
"Robert's work [...] offers hope that the strength of the human spirit and our collective ingenuity is sufficient to implement solutions at a time of multiple crises."
– Dr Christopher P. Cockel, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
"Robert Dash's extraordinary images are doorways to both knowledge and imagination. [...] Seeing through [his] lens is to appreciate the mystery and grandeur of the living world in a way that is unforgettable."
– Paul Hawken, Founder, Regeneration.org
