We have never needed farmers more; we have never treated them so badly. Yet theirs is the most beautiful profession in the world. They hold the keys to sustainable development in their hands. They are the first planet’s first environmentalists. What is wrong with our society, that it allows itself to bite the hand that feeds us? Farmer-bashing has become a never-ending game.

Climate change, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine have made food a key social issue once again. And the most beautiful profession in the world, feeding your fellow people, is also the hardest.

Yes, techniques need to evolve. Some already have. Other are the subject of fascinating experiments.

No, we can’t go back to our ancestors’ kind of farming if we want to feed the 10 billion individuals on the planet and ensure their access to food and good health.

This book is a manifesto in support of our farmers and to persuade everyone that they are magicians of the land who will be able to enable us to live.

We have to support our farmers, to fight against clichés and to understand that defending them is vitally urgent!

A manifesto against the clichés and criticism constantly aimed at farmers.