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Agricultura regenerativa: con el claro objetivo de regenerar el suelo y el entorno

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La agricultura regenerativa es una tendencia mundial que de a poco ha ido llegando a Chile, potenciada por el deterioro de los ecosistemas y de la calidad de los suelos. De hecho, algunos estudios señalan que el 33% de la superficie mundial se encuentra moderada o altamente degradada. “Los suelos de mayor calidad (aquellos de clase I y clase II) ya se encuentran con medios o altos niveles de compactación y con otros problemas de degradación, lo que limita la cantidad y calidad de la producción agrícola”, afirma Pascal Michelow, especialista en cubiertas vegetales.

A partir de esta situación, varias empresas internacionales de alimentos están buscando alinearse con las exigencias del Pacto Verde Europeo, presentado en diciembre de 2019 por la Comisión Europea, y que busca impulsar medidas contra el cambio climático hacia el año 2030.

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From GMOs to Regenerative Agriculture: A Scientist’s Journey

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It’s not often that a scientist will transition from the narrow-focused science of genetically modified crops to the natural systems approach of regenerative agriculture. But that’s what happened to Laura Kavanaugh, who worked as a scientist for biotech company Syngenta for 12 years helping to develop GMO crops. Today, she is the new chief science officer for Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), which works with farmers to help them transition to regenerative agriculture.

While working at Syngenta, Kavanaugh began to see the problems with the GMO approach.

“We create something as a GMO to try to overcome something in nature, but nature never sleeps,” says Kavanaugh, who has a PhD in genetics and genomics from Duke University. “There are billions of microbes, billions of everything that are eventually going to eventually crack that (GMO) code.”

She realized that the GMO approach wasn’t a good long-term solution because it produces a short-term impact.

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Agricultura regenerativa resalta entre expertos

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Expertos en el agro resaltaron la agricultura regenerativa y las buenas prácticas agrícolas, durante un foro organizado por el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA).

Durante el Diálogo Borlaug, los expertos tocaron temas, como buenas prácticas, conservación de los recursos naturales y aumento de productividad, todo enmarcado en el tema principal: agricultura regenerativa.

El director general del IICA, Manuel Otero, explicó que la regeneración es el acto de reparar algo dañado y devolverlo a su estado original.

“El concepto de agricultura regenerativa se refiere a la adopción de buenas prácticas que ya se realizan en la región, como siembra con labranza mínima y uso de cultivos de cobertura, entre otros”, explicó Otero.

Gestión adecuada de suelos

Por su parte, uno de los científicos que lidera junto al IICA el Programa Suelos Vivos en las Américas, Rattan Lal, aseguró que con la gestión adecuada de los suelos, el potencial de captura de carbono es grande.

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Necesaria política pública de fomento a prácticas de agricultura regenerativa

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Ciudad de México, 1o. de noviembre.- Hoy en día en el medio rural  los huracanes, heladas, inundaciones y sequías son una constante, ante ello, el uso de los biofertilizantes es oportunidad para hacer frente al problema recurrente, además de que es urgente emprender acciones de fondo para dar viabilidad a la producción de alimentos en un entorno de cambio climático.

Refirió Marcel Morales Ibarra, experto en temas agrícolas y desarrollo rural. Explicó que en el caso de la sequía, la aplicación de dichos insumos en la región centro del país, se logró disminuir las pérdidas en el cultivo del maíz entre 70 y 80 por ciento, frente a la pérdida o siniestro total que alcanzaron las parcelas donde sólo se usaron agroquímicos.

Para el especialista, dicha práctica “debe llevarnos a pensar en la necesidad de cambiar las prácticas de producción agro alimentaria, mediante el uso de bioinsumos, que no sólo permiten mayores niveles de producción y productividad, sino que representan respuesta al grave problema del cambio climático”.

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Regenerative Agriculture Slated to Restore Ecosystems As Pressure Mounts in F&B Sectors

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The food agriculture sector faces mounting pressure to reduce its contributions to climate change. While agriculture accounts for around 34% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from farming, deforestation and transportation activities in supply chains, the F&B sector recognizes the imperative to act on climate change, sparking interest in regenerative agriculture’s potential to restore ecosystems and sequester carbon.

Concurrently, 60% of consumers globally now rate sustainability as an essential purchase factor, driving demand for sustainably sourced products ever higher, according to FoodChain ID, a company that has been providing integrated food safety, quality and sustainability services to the global agrifoods industry since 1996.

Food Ingredients First speaks to FoodChain ID ahead of the company’s webinar on regenerative agriculture, which will be broadcast on November 8, 2023.

Dr. Ruud Overbeek, senior vice president of corporate development and strategic relationships at FoodChain ID, says agriculture is under pressure to demonstrate and improve its sustainable credentials.

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A Week on a Regenerative Dairy Farm

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In November 2019, I found myself on the other side of the planet, at Yandoit Farm, in the middle of the Australian countryside. I was part of a cohort of around twenty eclectics who had come to learn the concepts and applications of permaculture (and the joys of spring camping) over a two-week period. From these fourteen intense days of training, I came away with a head full of inspiration, ideas and projects to transpose onto the plot of land awaiting my arrival in Quebec a few months later. In spite of my enthusiasm, there was still an uneasy feeling in the back of my mind: how could I, as a proud descendant of five generations of farmers, combine permaculture and its principles with modern dairy and livestock farming?

Life has more than one twist and turn, and now, almost exactly four years later, I find myself in New York State attending a course in regenerative dairy production offered by Soil Health Academy.

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We Must Still Define Regenerative Agriculture

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Imagine a sandwich that actually made you – and the world – healthier by virtue of making it. This dream is held by hard-nosed ranchers, coastal vegans, corporate types, and hippy homesteaders alike. The term they often use to describe the dream is “regenerative agriculture.” Leo DiCaprio even has a venture capital fund that evokes the term. Surely we can’t all want the same thing for once, right?

Nobody knows because there isn’t a clear or agreed definition of what regenerative agriculture means, putting it at risk of being yet another term greenwashed into meaninglessness, like “humane” or “free-range”, 1984-style. Regenerative agriculture has been used to describe a plethora of agriculture practices: Cover-cropping, no-till biodynamic farming, organic permaculture, sustainable agroforestry, the three sisters, but, most frequently, livestock grazing. These forms of farming aim to restore the terribly depleted soil, which harbors microorganisms and fungi that naturally sequester carbon and nitrogen, fight pests, and reduce erosion and pollution.

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Monthly Newsletter – Vía Orgánica

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Eco-techniques  and Ecological Construction

The Ranch School is complemented by the ecological construction of the adobe cabins, a thermal material that allows temperature regulation. When the weather is cold, the cabins stay warm, and when it is hot, they stay cool.

The adobe is made on the ranch with a mixture of fine earth, slightly sandy soil and horse manure. The materials are mixed with water until a dense paste is formed, which is placed in molds and left to dry in the sun.

For maintenance, after the rains, a mixture of cactus slime and earth is applied to the walls with a brush to waterproof the adobe walls.

Cisterns have been placed under each adobe building to store rainwater collected from the roofs.

In addition, we have dry toilets that are similar to conventional toilets, the only difference is that there is no flushing of water each time they are used. Their operation is ecological because the solids are separated in a cavity and are treated with dry soil, biochar or sawdust to dehydrate the waste and compost it, so that it can be integrated into the forest areas; the liquids are also separated and can be used once they have fermented, diluted in water in forest areas.

The use of ecological toilets avoids the use of water and allows the waste to be managed so that it can be incorporated through composting.

As part of the demonstration space, we have a prototype of a fuel-saving stove that allows us to make efficient use of firewood for cooking and take full advantage of the heat. Another eco-friendly device we use is the CATIS ceramic filter, which allows us to filter rainwater for drinking water.

These eco-technologies together allow us to equip a house in an ecological way, making the most of the resources in an efficient and environmentally friendly way.

Learn more about our eco-techniques at the school ranch and learn how to implement them in your home!

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Seasonal Crops

Meet Our Producers

Rosario Landín is a producer from Comonfort Guanajuato, she’s been growing fruit orchards, with avocado, quince, peach, pomegranate, loquat, among others. She is also a craftswoman who participates in the elaboration of toys and different traditional embroideries. She and other people maintain the traditional festivities of her community “Orduña de Arriba”.

She is characterized by her joy, her dynamism and her love for her roots and work.
Find her seasonal products at Vía Orgánica’s ranch and at our ecological fairs and rural markets.

Workshops 2023

EVERY FRIDAY WE TAKE YOU TO THE VÍA ORGÁNICA RANCH!

Includes transportation, lunch, mini tour of the garden and tamale making demonstration.

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Regenerative Agriculture Is the New Farming Buzzword, but Few Can Agree on What It Means

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Earlier this year, NSW wine and olive oil producer Sam Statham recieved a phone call from a committed vegan.

The caller was seeking an assurance that animals weren’t used to graze the olive grove and vineyard. But the Stathams regularly agist sheep for exactly that purpose, and as a natural source of fertiliser.

“I had a sudden realisation that some people, not only do they not understand where their food comes from, they also might not understand what an ecosystem is or how nature actually works,” says Statham, who runs the family farm Rosnay Organic near Canowindra in the state’s central west.

It’s the main reason Statham now offers farm tours at Rosnay, which is certified to Australia’s national organic standard. He tries to provide clarity to visitors around the meaning of terms such as organic and regenerative, which are increasingly used to promote supermarket products.

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Exploring the connections between Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture

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Food security is one of a human being’s most basic needs, and the threat of food insecurity causes primal anxiety. Food insecurity is among the main causes of climate-related migration and, in turn, one of the main causes of the growing insecurity of nations.

With these vulnerabilities so raw, it’s no wonder people worldwide are questioning their food supply or that worldwide concern is surging about an industrial food system that feeds climate change and causes political instability – not to mention a system that weakens our immune systems and Nucauses serious nutrition-related health conditions and diseases.

It should also be no surprise that there is rapidly scaling curiosity about alternative food systems that don’t ride roughshod over human rights; about systems that keep people and the planet safe and healthy. And yet it can be confusing to understand the similarities and differences between these alternative systems. Let’s take a look at two approaches: Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture.

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