New Study Confirms: Degenerative Food & Farming System Poses Mortal Threat
By transitioning to regenerative food, farming and land-use practices, we can reverse global warming and produce healthier food.
Ronnie Cummins is co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and its Mexico affiliate, Vía Orgánica. Cummins has been active as a writer and activist since the 1960s, with extensive experience in public education, grassroots mobilization, and marketplace pressure campaigns. Over the past two decades he has served as director of U.S. and international campaigns dealing with sustainable agriculture issues including food safety, genetic engineering, factory farming, and global warming. Cummins has published hundreds of articles in the alternative and mainstream press. He is also the author of "Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers,” and a series of children’s books called "Children of the World.”
By transitioning to regenerative food, farming and land-use practices, we can reverse global warming and produce healthier food.
Together, North and South, we can draw down enough carbon from the atmosphere to reverse global warming, re-stabilize the climate, create rural prosperity and end forced migration.
The future of the Regeneration Movement depends on all of us. Will we rise to the occasion?
The future of the Regeneration Movement depends on all of us. Will we rise to the occasion?
Autor: Ronnie Cummins | Publicado: Octubre, 2017
Pregunta Uno: ¿Qué es la Iniciativa “Cuatro por 1000: Suelos por la Seguridad Alimentaria y Clima” lanzada por el gobierno francés en la Cumbre Climática de París en diciembre de 2015?
Respuesta: “Cuatro por 1000: Suelos por la Seguridad Alimentaria y Clima” es un plan global y acuerdo para revertir el calentamiento global, la degradación del suelo, el deterioro de la salud pública y la pobreza rural al aumentar prácticas regenerativas de uso de suelo, agricultura y alimentación.… Read more here
A major report on the costs of doing nothing to slow runaway global warming focuses exclusively on reducing carbon emissions. As usual, this new report fails to mention that even if we achieved zero emissions tomorrow, we’re still in big trouble—unless we draw down and sequester the billions of tons of carbon already in the atmosphere.
What is the “Four for 1000: Soils for Food Security and Climate” Initiative launched by the French government at the Paris Climate Summit in December 2015?
The following action plan is designed to jump-start this long overdue process, starting at the local level, eventually spreading into thousands of communities across the globe.
Author: Ronnie Cummins | Published: July 25, 2017
The Vermont brand has been built on a bucolic image of cows grazing on endless pastures . . . Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and other Vermont companies have used this idyllic imagery to sell their products.… Read more here
The basic menu for a Regeneration Revolution is to unite the world’s 3 billion rural farmers, ranchers and herders with several billion health, environmental and justice-minded consumers to overturn “business as usual” and embark on a global campaign of cooperation, solidarity and regeneration.