Unbreaking Press Release

Cambridge, UK, 5th November 2024 – In response to the rapid and radical transformation required to reverse climate breakdown, and the urgent need for systemic change across our financial and corporate sectors, 5m Books is today launching its imprint Unbreaking.

A multi-disciplinary space, Unbreaking provides a publishing platform for books based on, but not limited to, new theories, results of trials, impassioned argument, polemics and the seemingly unconventional. It welcomes books that speak to academics and policy makers, to those fighting for change, and, crucially, to those who are as yet unaware or unaccepting of the need for change.

5m Books, traditionally an agriculture publisher, was already commissioning new titles supporting the nature-positive transition in agricultural practice. Earlier this year it published Six Inches of Soil, How to Heal Ourselves, and Our Communities Through Regenerative Farming based on the film, which launched in January 2024. It’s also the distributor of With the Land, Reflections on Land Work and Ten Years of the Land Workers’ Alliance.

“As we became involved with the film, Six Inches of Soil, we began to look more deeply into the enormous challenges and solutions required to reverse the damage humans have inflicted on the planet since the Industrial Revolution,” says Jeremy Toynbee, 5m Books Director. “I began to join the dots and realised that the changes in agricultural practice were reliant on transformations in many other aspects of our systems. Unbreaking provides a literary space where these systems can connect economists, political scientists, sociologists, systems thinkers and most importantly those working and campaigning for change.”

Initially, Unbreaking is looking for titles in the areas of the agri-food system; agroecological and regenerative farming; alternative and local currencies; cooperative and worker-led business structures; degrowth; ecological and alternative economics/funding; land access; social enterprises; and universal basic incomes/services. Toynbee adds, “These key topics are our initial focus but we want to hear from anyone that’s contributing to unbreaking our planet and systems.”