Regenerative Agriculture Hits the Mainstream
Big Ag is getting on the bandwagon, but market premiums still aren’t on the table
Entries by Julienne Isaacs
The Green New Deal Wants Farmers to Restore the Land, Not Keep Wrecking It
Regenerative agriculture might sound at first like a subtle variation on organic. But if the term “organic” highlights what’s absent—no chemical fertilizers, no pesticides—”regenerative” goes a step further, advocating for practices like adaptive multi-paddock grazing, in which ruminants like cows and sheep are slowly rotated across a property, so they graze on and fertilize one section of the farm at a time while allowing the rest to naturally regrow and replenish.
Primer Congreso Mexicano de Agroecología: frente común para revertir los efectos nocivos del modelo agroindustrial
Del 12 al 17 de mayo de 2019 se celebró en San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México, el Primer Congreso Mexicano de Agroecología.
En el encuentro participaron más de mil personas integrantes de las comunidades campesina, académica, estudiantil, activista y de diversas organizaciones nacionales e internacionales, entre ellas Regeneration International.
Comida falsa, carne falsa: el intento desesperado de las grandes corporaciones alimentarias para intensificar la industrialización de nuestra comida
La comida no es una mercancía, no es una “cosa” ensamblada mecánica y artificialmente en laboratorios y fábricas. La comida es vida. La comida contiene el aporte de todos los seres que componen la red alimenticia, y tiene el potencial de mantener y regenerar la red de la vida. La comida también tiene el potencial para la salud y la enfermedad, dependiendo de cómo se cultivó y procesó. La comida es, por tanto, la moneda viva de la red de la vida.
Dr. Richard Teague: Regenerative Organic Practices “Clean Up the Act of Agriculture”
Agricultural land is generally being managed in a manner that is degrading the land resource. In particular, the soil function and ecosystem biodiversity that we need working properly to provide the ecosystem services that we depend on—we have to look at it in a different way.
Impossible Foods and Regenerative Grazers Face Off in a Carbon Farming Dust-Up
The plant-based burger company called regenerative grazing the “clean coal of meat” in a recent report. That hasn’t gone over well amongst carbon ranchers.
The New Plan to Remove a Trillion Tons of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere: Bury It
It sounds like an idea plucked from science fiction, but the reality is that trees and plants already do it, breathing carbon dioxide and then depositing it via roots and decay into the soil. That’s why consumers and companies often “offset” their carbon emissions by planting carbon-sucking trees elsewhere in the world.
Restoring Depleted Soils with Cattle
Adding grazing back into the equation increases soil organic matter, doubles forage production.
How Regenerative Land and Livestock Management Practices Can Sequester Carbon
Properly managed cows can help sequester carbon: as herds graze, dung, urine and old plant matter are trampled into the ground where they can decompose and enrich the soil’s network of microbial life.
Growing Healthier Soil, Food and Profits: Minnesota Farm Is Classroom for Upcoming Regenerative Agriculture School
Redwood Falls farmers Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz are
hosting a three-day Soil Health Academy school Aug. 13-15 at their 400-acre farm so others can learn how to breathe new life into their own farming operations.