Regeneration International and the Organic Consumers Association are boycotting COP28. We have participated in every COP since in Paris in 2015. The polluters have hijacked these international meetings. It is a classic case of regulatory capture, where instead of working for the people, the regulators work for the polluters. This year, COP 28 is being run by the Middle East oil and gas industry. COP 28 is being held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the ten largest oil producers in the world.

Have you seen the Regenerative Farm Map resource we have been developing over the past several years? The Regenerative Farm Map is a resource that was invented with a revolutionary idea at it’s heart: the idea that the regenerative movement has already spread across the whole world, and all we need to do to make it grow is connect people with their local regenerative farmers. This idea has proved to be true! And now we are asking you to help us grow the map even more!

We are happy to announce that Regeneration International has reached more than 500 partners all over the world. We are one of the largest and most significant regenerative organizations on the planet, with over 500 partners in over 70 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australasia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe. We are the people who started the global regeneration movement.

It feels like year 2023 should be over already. It’s been an incredibly wonderful year with many wonderful outcomes and collaborations, but also a year that hit us hard as RI family after we lost one of our greatest minds, Ronnie Cummins. I am however incredibly proud of our small team, the great loss, and great spirit of resiliency that we are all experiencing says so much about how important this work is for us who are alive and those that departed. Here’s a brief outlook of how things have been unfolding in the world of regeneration, in my world.  

May 11th and 12th, 2023, RI's friends and affiliates, Compassion in World Farming and  IPES-Food, hosted the Extinction or Regeneration conference in the heart of London, which provided a platform for experts across the globe to share solutions for how we can transform our food and farming systems for better human, animal, and planetary health via a whole food systems approach to providing sufficient nutritious food for an expanding world population while remaining within the safe operating space of all nine planetary boundaries while protecting wild and domestic animals and restoring soils, oceans, forests, and biodiversity.