Regenerative Farming: Number One Antidote to Climate Change
Properly managed pastured livestock is “our number one antidote to climate change.”
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Properly managed pastured livestock is “our number one antidote to climate change.”
I got involved with Slow Money because of a personal interest in organic agriculture, but also because I had clients who wanted to channel some of their assets into sustainable food systems. But soil? I didn’t know anything about soil.
Dosing farm animals with antibiotics increases greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, research suggests.
Agriculture and the whole food system play a decisive role and must be at the centre of the debate on climate change. Food production is one of the main causes – and victims – of climate change, and could also become one of the solutions.
Kernza’s most important difference–and the reason so many people have been waiting for its arrival–is the way it interacts with the soil.
New legislation is being proposed in California which would authorize a pilot program to study and report to Congress on projects for sequestering carbon through enhanced grazing practices, restoring degraded public lands including rangelands and forests, and the application of composts.
Amidst complex discussions about the effects of chemical farming practices on public health, whether to choose an industrial or regenerative farming model, and the profitability of future crops, Maui stands at the crossroads between America’s farming past and its green future.
There is no disputing the fact that communities love their farmers. When farmers call it quits it is not because they have failed—it is because our archaic food and agriculture system has failed them.
Farmers can do their part, but we can go a long way as individuals by thinking more carefully about how much and what we eat.
Scientists believe that simple land management techniques can increase the rate at which carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in soils.