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Agroecology as Innovation

07/11/2019

Agroecological sciences offer just the kinds of innovations small-scale farmers need to increase soil fertility, raise productivity, improve food and nutrition security, and build climate resilience

Regenerative Agriculture Hits the Mainstream

07/07/2019

Big Ag is getting on the bandwagon, but market premiums still aren’t on the table

The Green New Deal Wants Farmers to Restore the Land, Not Keep Wrecking It

07/01/2019

Regenerative agriculture might sound at first like a subtle variation on organic. But if the term “organic” highlights what’s absent—no chemical fertilizers, no pesticides—”regenerative” goes a step further, advocating for practices like adaptive multi-paddock grazing, in which ruminants like cows and sheep are slowly rotated across a property, so they graze on and fertilize one section of the farm at a time while allowing the rest to naturally regrow and replenish.

Dr. Richard Teague: Regenerative Organic Practices “Clean Up the Act of Agriculture”

06/25/2019

Agricultural land is generally being managed in a manner that is degrading the land resource. In particular, the soil function and ecosystem biodiversity that we need working properly to provide the ecosystem services that we depend on—we have to look at it in a different way.

Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal: Frequently Asked Questions

06/20/2019

Q. What is the national coalition of Farmers & Ranchers…

Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food

06/19/2019

The industrial west has always been arrogant, and ignorant, of the cultures it has colonised. “Fake Food” is just the latest step in a history of food imperialism.

Impossible Foods and Regenerative Grazers Face Off in a Carbon Farming Dust-Up

06/19/2019

The plant-based burger company called regenerative grazing the “clean coal of meat” in a recent report. That hasn’t gone over well amongst carbon ranchers.

The Climate Emergency: Regenerate or Perish

06/17/2019

Transitioning a small proportion of global agricultural production to regenerative agriculture and regenerative grazing systems will sequester enough CO2 to reverse cli-mate change and restore the global climate.

The New Plan to Remove a Trillion Tons of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere: Bury It

06/14/2019

It sounds like an idea plucked from science fiction, but the reality is that trees and plants already do it, breathing carbon dioxide and then depositing it via roots and decay into the soil. That’s why consumers and companies often “offset” their carbon emissions by planting carbon-sucking trees elsewhere in the world.

Restoring Depleted Soils with Cattle

06/14/2019

Adding grazing back into the equation increases soil organic matter, doubles forage production.

How Regenerative Land and Livestock Management Practices Can Sequester Carbon

06/10/2019

Properly managed cows can help sequester carbon: as herds graze, dung, urine and old plant matter are trampled into the ground where they can decompose and enrich the soil’s network of microbial life.

Growing Healthier Soil, Food and Profits: Minnesota Farm Is Classroom for Upcoming Regenerative Agriculture School

05/29/2019

Redwood Falls farmers Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz are hosting a three-day Soil Health Academy school Aug. 13-15 at their 400-acre farm so others can learn how to breathe new life into their own farming operations.

One Solution to Climate Change No One Is Talking About

05/27/2019

There is movement away from industrial agriculture toward regenerative farming methods, as evinced by the “4 per 1000” initiative launched by the French in the wake of the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. The overarching thrust of this initiative? That an increase by 0.4 percent a year in soil carbon content would “halt the increase in the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere related to human activities.”

Regeneration 2019: State of the Movement

05/22/2019

People are concerned, alarmed and ready to listen to our message. Now is the time for the Regeneration Movement to step forward and help mobilize our millions of allies and would-be allies. We know what to do. The best practices and practitioners in alternative energy, infrastructure rebuilding and regenerative food and farming are already visible in our local communities. Our moral and existential imperative is to mobilize politically and scale up these practices, raising the banner of a Regenerative Green New Deal in every community, region and nation.

Big Food Turning to Regenerative Agriculture to Meet Sustainability Goals

05/22/2019

Companies such as General Mills and Hormel Foods are embracing the practice to help their businesses and respond to consumers who consider environmental stewardship in their buying habits.