Can synthetic fertilizers and pesticides coexist with genuine regenerative agriculture? It's one of the most contested questions in the food movement right now, and IFOAM North America and Natural Grocers brought stakeholders together to discuss in a session moderated by Alan Lewis of Natural Grocers. The panel featured Dr. Jon Lundgren, agroecologist and founder of the Ecdysis Foundation; Dr. Linley Dixon, plant pathologist, farmer, and Co-Director of the Real Organic Project; and Carrie Balkcom, Executive Director of the American Grassfed Association. Alongside them, farmers, advocates, retailers, and food system leaders weighed in.

This review details critical risk scenarios, including horizontal gene transfer to native species and the possible disruption of vital human microbiomes (gut, oral, and infant), which could increase resistance to degradation, promote traits that expand a microbe’s range of hosts or ecological niches, and enhance the production of novel metabolites with unexpected biological activity.

This year, Regeneration International celebrated a decade of collective action — ten years of grassroots organizing, global solidarity, and soil-deep transformation. Our partner network has now grown to more than 700 organizations.

Research shows glyphosate-based herbicides cause multiple serious chronic diseases. Over 50 years of regulation since glyphosate's introduction in 1974 clearly highlight regulatory failure. Authorities should fulfill their duty to protect the public by banning these substances.

We formed Regeneration International as an umbrella—a partnership of like-minded, nature-based systems to facilitate the shift away from industrial agriculture. A small group of leaders from the organic, agroecology, holistic management, environmental, and natural health movements started Regeneration International as a genuinely inclusive and representative umbrella organization. The concept was initially formed at the United Nations Climate Change Meeting in New York in October 2014 during a meeting at the Rodale headquarters. The aim was to establish a global network of like-minded agricultural, environmental, and social organizations to facilitate the paradigm shift from degenerate industrial agricultural systems to regenerative, nature-based systems.