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Scaling up Regenerative Agriculture

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Government officials and agronomists from the Department of Agricultural Extension (DOAE), Department of Agriculture (DOA) and Harmless Harvest are pressing ahead with a plan to pass on their knowledge and skills on regenerative organic agricultural practices to coconut farmers in the four provinces of Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon, Samut Songkram and Ratchaburi.

From June to November, a group of 27 governmental and private agriculturists and agronomists will carry out training sessions on farming as a business, soil health, pollinators, organic compost, and organic pest management for as many as 350 coconut farmers across the four provinces.

They participated in a master training class during March-April in Ratchaburi led by the Regenerative Coconuts Agriculture Project (ReCAP), showcasing Thailand’s first collaboration between Danone Ecosystem Fund, Harmless Harvest and GIZ Thailand. The aim is to transform conventional practices of coconut farmers towards regenerative organic practices, thereby reducing their impact on climate change and strengthening the livelihoods of farmers and local coconut farming communities.

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Sequía y estrategias de adaptación en la agricultura

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En la temporada de lluvias que acaba de concluir, la Sierra Nevada lució tan blanca y llena de nieve como no se había visto en años y los aguaceros en los meses de octubre y noviembre fueron memorables. Aun así, la alarma de sequía suena nuevamente desde Sacramento para restringir el uso de agua en las ciudades y el campo.

“Estamos entrando a esta temporada que ya no es de lluvia con baja humedad en el suelo. Con solo la mitad de agua en las presas, con los acuíferos sobreexplotados y déficit en el almacenamiento en el suelo, entonces vamos a tratar de usar la poca agua que tenemos lo mejor posible”, sostieneSamuel Sandoval Solís, especialista en recursos hídricos de la División de Agricultura y Recursos Naturales de la Universidad de California.

La tierra esta sedienta y ha permanecido en algunas áreas seca y agrietada por años, es resultado del calentamiento global y las temperaturas más cálidas.

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Call for Contributors to Support Implementation of Regenerative Agriculture Revolution in Cee Region During the Period 2022-2024

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Regenerative Agriculture Revolution is a project aiming to help farmers in Central and Eastern Europe to learn about and transition to more sustainable methods of agriculture. In 2022 – 2024 (1), we would like to provide training sessions, individual advisory to the farmers, long-term soil monitoring of the farms and promotion services to a wider audience in each country.

Eligible ogranisations are:

  • Legal persons, such as companies, incubators or accelerators, higher education institutes, research institutes, non-governmental organisations (please note consortia are not eligible for this call),
  • Operating in target countries – Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia or Slovenia,
  • Recognised as important players in the local, national, agricultural ecosystem with strong outreach in the farmer community,
  • Proven track record of expertise in and promotion of sustainable agriculture practices.

Selection process

Interested and eligible organisations are invited to submit their applications by 5 July 2022, 23:59 pm CEST, using the attached Application Form (documents can be downloaded below). Please send the electronic version of the application, based on the attached template, to: monika.linkowska@eitfood.eu

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Study: Regenerative Farming Boosts Soil Health, Yielding More Nutritious Crops

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Plants build themselves from sunlight, water, and soil. And, as it turns out, what crops “eat” can influence the nutrients on our own plates.

A recent study, published in the journal PeerJ, compared the nutritional content of food crops grown using conventional versus regenerative farming practices — those that build the soil by using cover crops, a diverse rotation of crops, and minimal tilling.

“It was very difficult to find studies that had explicitly looked at soil health and how that affects what gets into food,” lead author David Montgomery, a professor of Earth and space science at the University of Washington, told Mongabay. “We did the experiment that we wished was out there.”

The researchers turned to a network of farmers who they knew had successfully rebuilt soil fertility on their land using regenerative agricultural practices. Ten regenerative farms agreed to grow 1 acre (0.4 hectares) each of peas, sorghum, corn, or soybeans to compare results with the same crop grown on a neighboring conventional farm.

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Agricultura regenerativa: volver a cultivar en alianza con la naturaleza

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Los suelos agrícolas van perdiendo con el tiempo los nutrientes y la capacidad de retención de agua. El uso de fertilizantes químicos tiene un límite y los suelos empobrecidos no permiten cultivos de calidad. Por eso es necesario cambiar el modelo y pasar de monocultivos de olivar o almendro, por ejemplo, a una agricultura que recupere la biodiversidad. Hablamos hoy de la agricultura regenerativa.

Frente al uso masivo de abonos químicos, la agricultura regenerativa apuesta por el empleo de abonos orgánicos, pastoreo, captaciones sostenibles de agua, siembras alternativas y complementarias y restauración de suelos. No hay una sola fórmula mágica. Hay que tener en cuenta las condiciones locales, el clima y los usos tradicionales.

El investigador Joris de Vente, del Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS-CSIC), explica a Planeta A que hay un abanico de acciones y de cambios en el manejo y, cuantos más implementas, mejor.

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The regenerative farm working to improve soil without fertilizers

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Lettuces are sprouting, the wildflowers are in bloom and a buzzard is circling above the meadow on a sunny spring day at Huxhams Cross Farm near the village of Dartington in Devon. From the top of a hill, Marina O’Connell can survey most of the 15 hectares (37 acres) she has dedicated the past six years to transforming.

When she took over running the farm in 2015, she recalls, the farm contractor called this a “miserable bit of land”. Now the fields and hedgerows buzz with wildlife, and young farm workers chat as they sow carrot seeds and plant out early spinach. Further downhill, chickens peck about near polytunnels full of vegetables and soft fruit.

This idyllic spot has been completely redesigned, and indeed reborn, since it was bought by the charitable community benefit society the Biodynamic Land Trust, with the goal of creating a sustainable and “regenerative” agricultural system.

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Un nuevo estudio del FiBL muestra las vías para lograr una agricultura ecológica climáticamente neutra en 2040

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Las emisiones cero en la agricultura ecológica en Suiza son un reto, pero son posibles. Esta es la conclusión de un estudio publicado por el Instituto de Investigación de la Agricultura Orgánica (FiBL). Aunque el 60% de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero podrían ahorrarse en la agricultura, los consumidores también están llamados a poner de su parte cambiando sus pautas de consumo, dice el estudio.

A partir de la base de datos sobre agricultura ecológica y protección del clima recopilada en el estudio, los investigadores de FiBL modelaron varios escenarios para estimar la condición de la agricultura ecológica neutra desde el punto de vista climático en 2040 e identificar los mayores desafíos. Al hacerlo, llegaron a las siguientes conclusiones: Basándose en los conocimientos actuales, la agricultura ecológica puede reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en aproximadamente un 15% y compensarlas en un 45%. Esto requerirá contribuciones diversas y sustanciales por parte de los agricultores.

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Regenerative Agriculture: Healthy Soil Best Bet for Carbon Storage

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Agriculture is the main driver of global deforestation and land conversion, and food systems account for more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, making it a major contributor to climate change. A new report by Europe’s National Academies of Sciences provides evidence that a transformation to regenerative agriculture holds promising keys to reducing climate risks while providing the growing world population with food and enhancing biodiversity.

“Transforming agriculture is the planet’s greatest untapped treasure for coping with the climate crisis. Today’s large-scale conventional agriculture has huge negative impact on soil. Soil erosion, the loss of flora and fauna and thereby nutrients in soils, has become a major factor in Europe,” explains Prof. Thomas Elmqvist, one of the lead authors of EASAC’s first-time scientific analysis of the potential of regenerative agriculture. The report shows that restoring biodiversity in soils, particularly in grasslands can dramatically increase their capacity to capture and store carbon.

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Se desarrolla un nuevo futuro para la agricultura

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Si nunca has escuchado el término “agricultura regenerativa”, tal vez lo escuches pronto porque podría transformar nuestra concepción de la agricultura. Pero, al igual que la agricultura orgánica de la década de 1960, es un movimiento cargado de grandes promesas. Y luego tenemos visionarios prácticos, como Donald Wyse, que están echando raíces en la tierra…… literalmente.

No es nada nuevo el concepto detrás de la agricultura regenerativa (que es, en sí, restaurar la salud del suelo), pero en los últimos años lo han adoptado expertos y agricultores, organizaciones no gubernamentales y empresas incluidas en la lista de Fortune 500 con conciencia ecológica. El movimiento promete restaurar la fertilidad agotada de la superficie del suelo, reducir los niveles de dióxido de carbono en la atmósfera, impedir que los fertilizantes contaminen los ríos y los acuíferos y promover la biodiversidad. ¿Cómo sería eso en términos prácticos? Tal vez Wyse esté a punto de responderlo.

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Starting Anew with Regenerative Agriculture

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Agriculture is at the centre of a number of global challenges today. Climate change, depleting water tables, degraded soils, loss of biodiversity along with a staggered social and economic development—to name a few. For cotton farmers in India, regenerative agriculture spells a new beginning.

Conventional farming has shown its limits, contributing to persistent soil destruction that include decarbonization, erosion, desertification and chemical pollution. All of this for the sake of increasing yield, ensuring food security and apparently securing the farmer a higher income from his land. The narrative was played out alongside the Green Revolution that emerged to stave off widespread starvation in 1960’s India. Since then, through the succeeding decades, the trend of yield-focused agriculture has continued to grow, only to be adopted across all crops, involving inordinate chemical use and genetically modified varieties.

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