Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica
The Vía Orgánica Ranch has become a living school. Enriching and formative experiences are generated daily, not only for the people who come to visit but also for the team that collaborates on the project. Learn more about the project in this edition.
The Science-based Evidence to Ban Glyphosate and GMOs
Mexico announced that it was phasing out the use of glyphosate herbicides, the cultivation of GMO corn, and the import of GMO corn for human consumption and livestock feed by the end of 2024. The reasons for the decree given by Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador are to protect the health of Mexico’s consumers and small-scale farmers, the environment, and the purity of Mexico’s native corn varieties.
Maximizing Photosynthesis and Root Exudates through Regenerative Agriculture to Increase Soil Organic Carbon to Mitigate Climate Change
To shift from a significant emitter to a major mitigator of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, agriculture needs to change from the current dominant paradigm of chemically intensive, industrial/conventional systems to regenerative systems by focusing on plant biology and living soil sciences. Going to renewables is not enough now and this is why carbon dioxide removal through increasing soil carbon by scaling up best practice regenerative agriculture is critical to keeping the temperature rise below 1.5ºC.
Our Global Regeneration Revolution: Organic 3.0 to Regenerative and Organic Agriculture
We have a lot of work to do. We are currently living well beyond our planetary boundaries and extracting far more than our planet can provide. We need to build the new regenerative system that will replace the current degenerate system.
Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica
Poultry start their day along with the first rays of the sun at the Regenerative Farm, a diversified model where they live in open-air paddock spaces with extensive land to explore. Read this monthly Newsletter from Vía Orgánica to learn all about poultry and to check all the updates at the Agroecology center in Mexico.
Imagining A Greater Organic Reset
OCA and its allies worldwide are dedicated to addressing critical issues of climate change, soil health, biodiversity, water pollution and scarcity, nutrition, environmental contamination, deteriorating public health, forced migration, economic justice, and rural economic development. But what do we need to do to make this goal a practical reality? What would an “Organic Greater Reset” look like.
Trinational Announcement of Peasant Organizations, Farmers, Environmentalists, Unions, Churches, Social Activists, Academics and Journalists From Our Three Countries
The transnational corporations and business organizations that benefit from GM corn and biocides such as glyphosate are strongly pressuring the Mexican government (with support from the U.S. government) to renounce its right to food sovereignty and walk away from the international commitments assumed by the three governments in the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," which is the strategic plan for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the period 2022-2030, intended to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica
Producing food is a job that requires a lot of responsibility, respect, and recognition. That is why this Rancho-Escuela emerged as a space for experimentation and demonstration precisely to make visible the work of women and men who provide us with food every day. In addition, it has allowed us to know the factors involved in the production of vegetables and animal products origin.
The Myth of No-Till: The Future is Regenerative Organic Agriculture
We have enough high-quality studies now to show that Regenerative Organic Agriculture has the highest yields and the best increases in soil organic carbon. Scaling up Regenerative Organic Agriculture can reverse climate change, increase biodiversity, improve water capture and retention, stop soil loss, be more profitable for farmers and ranchers, and very significantly nourish the world with high yields of healthy non-toxic food.
Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica
We completed a new cycle of seasons and despite the climatic irregularities, an increase in the amount of soil inoculated and recovered after rainfall is perceived, which is stored more thanks to the organic matter added throughout the farm. This encourages active microbiology and with it, grasslands and forest areas have been restored, increasing the amount of biomass each year allowing its transformation into proteins such as eggs, lamb, duck and rabbit meat, increasing the soil's capacity as a store and water sponge, CO2 capture, among other benefits.
Women Voices from Global South Discussing Food Sovereignty and Climate Change at COP 27
During COP 27, a group of women from Abya Yala raised their firm and deep voices to speak up about food sovereignty in regions that are so different and yet alike as America and Africa. The talk was organized by Regeneration International and OMANIAP.
Wrapping Up COP27
Sponsored by companies such as Coke, with a presidency held by a military government that severely represses its citizens (in a holiday resort far away from the realities of the Egyptian people) we were never going to expect much from the outcome of COP27 to shift the international community away from its business-as-usual pattern.
The Distorted Lies About Sri Lanka’s Organic Pathway
Recently there have been a series of articles stating that Sri Lanka’s economic chaos was caused by the government forcing the country to go organic. These articles' familiar false narratives, untruths, and language style show that they were written spin doctors from a PR company employed by pesticide/big agriculture cartels.
Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica
Vía Orgánica ranch was born as a connection space between producers and consumers. Its first space was a store designed to publicize local, wild, artisanal products, coming from the hands of guardians of some natural landscape. It was the producers who inspired this project and continue to motivate it, which is why we dedicate this newsletter to the families of organic producers who take care of the planet and feed the world.
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