in this new plea for a change ‘from the bottom’, Jacques Caplat reproduces the diagnosis of the damage to conventional agriculture already presented in his first book, published in 2012 in the Southern Actes Publishing. The first part, a real epistemology of agriculture, reveals the impact on different parameters — climate, soil erosion, micro-organism biodiversity — in order to make the landscape more readable to lay people. The role of legumes, for example...