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People’s Food Summit 2022

11/01/2022

The People’s Food Summit is a truly participatory summit that empowers the majority of the world’s food producers: the small-holder family farmers, pastoralists, and foresters who produce 70% of the food we eat. This year we also featured natural health as how we produce our food and what we eat is essential to our health and the health of our environment and society.

Regenerating Seed and Food Culture in Africa

10/15/2022

For the longest time, the narrative of food and agriculture in Africa has been degraded, with African seeds being labeled as tired, ways of farming as backwards, and a chain of narratives that include Africa being poor and needing “new technologies”. However, farmers are putting their best foot forward in changing the trajectory by using natural, local and biologically regenerative practices to grow food and nourish their families. Most industrial agriculture approaches that are mostly linked with the green revolution in Africa are proving to lead to more hunger and crop failures in the face of unreliable weather patterns due to the climate crises.

Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica

10/04/2022

Commemorating the International Day of Rural Women, we celebrate and recognize all the hard work all these women do in this project. Their hard work is essential for the operation of the ranch, each one of them being fundamental pieces to make Vía Orgánica's work. Demonstrating that field work can be and, in many cases, is directed by women, even if the opposite is thought.

The Onslaught of Genetic Engineering 2.0

09/12/2022

A century of enterprise brought the Rio Grande to its brink. Now authorities are “praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom on both sides of the Mexico-Texas border.

Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica

09/02/2022

This month we celebrate corn at home, the milpa, with special tours to discover the species that sprout on our plot, learn what they're used for, and how plants are related. At the end of your tour ask for your cooked corn and some product from the milpa.

Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica

08/01/2022

In recent years we have noticed longer droughts and more irregular rains due to climate change, therefore, rainwater harvesting becomes more relevant.

The Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture

07/11/2022

The manufacture of synthetic fertiliser is highly energy intensive. One kg of nitrogen fertiliser requires the energy equivalent of 2 litres of diesel. Energy used during fertiliser manufacture was equivalent to 191 billion litres of diesel in 2000 and is projected to rise to 277 billion in 2030. This is a major contributor to climate change, yet largely ignored.

Regeneration International’s Perspective of the UNCCD COP15 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

06/30/2022

On the 20 of May 2022, 196 countries ratified an agreement under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to neutralize land degradation and restore 1 billion hectares of land globally by 2030.

Covid, Climate, Chemicals and Debt: The Perfect Storm that hit Sri Lanka

04/10/2022

The crisis has multiple roots but has intensified in the last 2 years with Covid, Climate change, the debt crisis, the contribution of chemical fertilisers to debt, climate emissions and climate vulnerability.

Agave Power: Greening the Desert

04/05/2022

The development of a new agave-based agroforestry and holistic livestock management system in the semi-arid drylands of Guanajuato, Mexico, utilizing basic ecosystem restorations techniques, permaculture design, and silage production using anaerobic fermentation, is changing the image of agave and their companion trees.

Record Temperatures in the Global South: The Effect of Change of Land Use and Deforestation Becomes More and More Patent Through the Changes of Temperature

02/03/2022

RI on the ground. This year we want to start sharing with you dispatches from the field: updates on what is happening globally and messages of hope and resilience that could turn the tide.

What Happened at the UNFCCC COP26 and How RI Could Promote Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture to Reverse Climate Change at COP27 in Egypt

02/03/2022

In November of last year, Regeneration International sent a delegation to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend the 26th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Nearly 200 countries negotiate emissions reductions and climate change mitigation goals to limit global temperature rise by 1,5C.

Funding the Regeneration Revolution

02/01/2022

As we have repeatedly emphasized over the past decade, we cannot hope to solve the climate, human, environmental, immigration, financial, and rural economic crisis without organic and regenerative food, farming, and land use becoming the norm, rather than just the alternative.

Regeneration 2022: Requiem or Revival?

01/13/2022

The ambitious goal of Regeneration International is to “change the global conversation” on food, farming, and climate. Our strategy is to inspire and mobilize the global grassroots with the revolutionary message that the climate crisis can be solved, in fact, that global warming and its collateral damage to public health, the environment, biodiversity, and economic livelihoods, can actually be reversed through a global scaling up of organic and regenerative best practices in combination with a transition to renewable energy.

André Leu: Regenerative Farming Is the Next Stage of Agricultural Evolution

12/30/2021

Hardly anyone had heard of regenerative agriculture before 2014. Now it is in the news every day all around the world. A small group of leaders of the organic, agroecology, holistic management, environment and natural health movements started Regeneration International as a truly inclusive and representative umbrella organization.

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