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"In the scenario a healthy diet is provided for the population on only 29% of the land currently used for food production, supplemented by low-carbon imports. It provides a much higher degree of food security than at present." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on landuse ans agriculture.

"The large reduction in the consumption of animal products within the zerocarbonbritain2030 scenario frees up land that can be used to grow biomass. One of the uses to which we put this biomass is to create biofuel in order to power those transport sectors for which there is currently no alternative to liquid hydrocarbon fuels: aviation, shipping, some heavy goods vehicles and some farm machinery." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on "Transport biofuels" a contentious subject.

"Defra is the Rural Hub in Government. It is the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, but a great deal of its work is "rural" in one way or another. Some 86% of the land area in England is classified as rural, and most of that is either farmland, forest, managed landscape or natural open spaces,"

"One of Defra's major tasks is to help this vital industry meet the challenges of food security and climate change by enabling farmers to care for the land, produce efficiently and sustainably, and uphold high animal welfare standards. "

"Analysis shows that the adoption of the circular economy could be worth as much as USD 700 billion in consumer goods material savings alone, and also highlights added benefits in terms of land productivity and potential job creation. The report features specific examples in product categories that represent 80% of the total consumer goods market by value, namely food, beverages, textiles, and packaging. "

""People have heart's ease when they're on their own country. If you force them off that country, if you take them away from their land, they feel the loss of heart's ease as a kind of vertigo, a disintegration of their whole life.""

""a shaking of the traditional pieces of the global geo-political puzzle and their landing in a new and unfamiliar configuration." "

"After appropriate management changes land can remove CO2 from the air and sequester it in soil or above-ground biomass. Carbon can also be sequestered by forming biomass into human artefacts and preserving it, preventing its carbon from being returned to the atmosphere."

"Taking the widely quoted figure that there could be an estimated 150 million people forced from their homes and land by climate change by 2050, this event brings together ideas from Heads of State, philosophers, explorers, scientists, lawyers, actors and experts in their field to discuss the potential cultural, emotional and physical impacts of forced migration, who should be responsible and what the potential options are for dealing with the impending human rights crisis."

"It's very permacultural to develop skills that will connect you more deeply to land, home, and community. And sometimes the skills that we gained in search of self reliance are the same ones we need to be more community-reliant. But self reliance, as a goal in itself, is a tired old myth that needs to die. It's unpermacultural."

Satoyama landscape refers to a traditional Japanese socio-ecological production landscape and an example of multi-functional land use wherein residents employ agricultural practices and natural resource management techniques that optimize the benefits derived from local ecosystems.

Supports the rights of indigenous people for their own lands on their own terms

Information on bio-char.

Information on bio-char.

"Effective solutions for living sustainably in the postindustrial age require innovative frameworks and implementation strategies. Rather than tackling these global-scale problems one by one, as we are attempting for climate change, we need a far more holistic and integrated approach. The planetary boundaries framework provides such an approach. "