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New Research Shows Practices From the Past Will Be Key to Future Soil Carbon Solutions

Sometimes to go forward, you must go back

A new study from Colorado State University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology found that regenerative practices—including integrating crop and livestock systems—were successful as long-term carbon storage solutions.

The paper, “Restoring particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon through regenerative agriculture,” was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study was led by ecology Ph.D. candidate Aaron Prairie, along with two co-authors: research scientist Alison King and M. Francesca Cotrufo, professor of soil and crop sciences and Prairie’s advisor.

Their research presented a global systemic meta-analysis looking beyond the impact of regenerative agricultural practices on total soil organic carbon (SOC) alone, instead looking at two main pools.

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Difícil, no imposible

La salinización del suelo es un fenómeno de compleja reversión que se ha convertido en un gran problema a nivel mundial, que sigue expandiéndose en el mundo. Sumada a la urbanización de muchos suelos agronómicamente valiosos, la salinización representa un grave problema para la agricultura porque los suelos se vuelven improductivos. Existen proyecciones de que este problema puede llegar a afectar hasta 10.000 millones de hectáreas con, en promedio, un 20% de menor rendimiento. Según datos de la Organización para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), la salinización causará una pérdida del 30% de los suelos productivos los próximos 25 años y hasta un 50% en 2050 si no se adoptan medidas preventivas.

La salinidad del suelo se caracteriza por acumulacion en la rizósfera de cationes salinos como Na+, Mg2 +, K+ y Ca2 +, y de aniones salinos como OH-, SO4 -2, Cl-, CO3 -2, HCO3-, NO3 -. Aun cuando puede producirse debido a procesos naturales, el mayor incremento en la salinización de suelos sucede por la acción del hombre a través del riego con agua con altos contenidos de bicarbonatos, la falta de drenaje efectivo, la baja permeabilidad del suelo, la presencia de napas freáticas superficiales o el excesivo uso de cal que afectan la lixiviación de las sales.

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On Community, Soil and Agency: Cultivating Sustainable Food Systems

The big and the small – drivers of (un)sustainability

As with all sustainability challenges, the problem of achieving socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems has no simple answers. So, this article will not attempt to provide any. Instead, it seeks to unpack what makes our existing paradigm unsustainable, explore emerging alternatives in the regenerative farming movement, and cultivate new imaginaries to expand the realm of the possible.

To orient ourselves in this exploration, let us consider the following question. Given the realities of climate change and ecological overshoot, how do we cultivate a new mode of development to achieve net-zero, sustainable coexistence of people and planet?

One response to this question manifests in the post-growth economic paradigm. Supporters of this paradigm suggest that to achieve long-term sustainability, we need to move away from viewing development within the narrow confines of GDP1, economic growth and even monetary wealth, towards a nuanced vision of human wellbeing and its diverse drivers. This can be facilitated by understanding mechanisms of empowerment as the ability to access and utilise resources. To quote the rapper, educator and activist Akala, “Money is a means to get wealth – not the wealth itself”. If we want to create a socially just and ecologically sustainable world, it is not enough to critique how systems of power maintain injustice, or to reform fundamentally unjust and destructive systems – although these are important. We also need to actively cultivate transitions to more sustainable alternatives.

A crucial element for such transitions is a nuanced approach to land reform and use that actively balances the needs of human development and ecological sustainability. To achieve equitable access to resources and opportunities required for holistic wellbeing, without overshooting planetary boundaries – to ensure everyone has enough, while conserving and restoring our ecosystems – our global systems of organising the economy need to be transformed at a fundamental level.

And yet, all of this begins at a much smaller scale. The economy is an emergent outcome of many individual actions that (re)organise patterns of interaction between people, ecosystems, resources and institutions. Our agency, in turn, is not confined to the level of the individual, but emerges through contextually specific capacities to harness resources, and influence interactions through our networks and relationships, to achieve collectively agreed-upon outcomes.

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La sequía puede ser nuestra gran oportunidad para la regeneración

Vean este increíble video que Hope hizo acerca de los beneficios de la agricultura regenerativa.

La agricultura regenerativa puede resolver 5 de nuestros principales problemas como sociedad. Ayúdanos a seguir trabajando.

 

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12 Ways to Make Your Garden Regenerative

When we talk to people around us about what we do at Regeneration Canada, one of the questions we’re asked most often is: Can I make my own garden regenerative? Can the different practices that farmers use to regenerate their soil be applied to a small backyard garden? The answer is yes!

We are proposing 12 ways to make your garden regenerative. But before we get to them, let’s take a moment to reflect on why this matters.

Why do we need to regenerate our soil?

Regeneration means improving the resources you depend on, like soil, by building them and regenerating life into them, as opposed to simply using them and leaving them degraded. Unfortunately, sustaining our resources isn’t enough anymore: if we want to see real change, we need to be regenerating. And yes, soil is very alive. There are more microorganisms in a teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on the planet!

It’s important to take good care of our soil. Not only does healthy soil allow us to grow healthy, nutrient dense food, it also has the capacity to help reverse climate change. Healthy soil is like a giant carbon sponge. It can store a huge amount of carbon dioxide, by taking it out of the air, and soaking it up in the ground. This can help reverse the effects of global warming and extreme weather.

So how can you make your home garden more regenerative?

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Vuelta de hoja: agricultura regenerativa

El sector agrícola y ganadero es la base económica de América Latina, de donde sale el 60 % de las importaciones de soja del mundo, más del 40 por ciento de carne vacuna y el 30 por ciento del maíz. Se estima que la región podría duplicar su producción agrícola hasta el 2030.

Pero muchas prácticas agropecuarias ocasionan pérdida de la biodiversidad. ¿Es posible restaurar el equilibrio entre la producción agrícola, la salud humana y de los ecosistemas?

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Bringing Regenerative Agriculture to Africa: Kenyan Farmers Are Enthusiastic but Need Better Packaged Info – New Report

Regenerative agriculture is a common term among farmers in the global north today. A wide range of investors, corporations and innovations are all vying to play a role in the transition of the world’s acres to a method of farming that’s mooted to be able to improve soil health, increase yields long term, reverse desertification, protect biodiversity, sequester carbon and otherwise reduce the negative externalities of conventional, synthetic and chemical input-based agriculture.

In the global south, where farmers have not had the same access to high quality, and potentially damaging, fertilizers and pesticides, the regenerative agriculture movement has been slower. It’s also likely that in the absence of these inputs, several farmers may already be farming somewhat regeneratively, a farming approach and set of practices that indigenous populations have used across the globe for thousands of years.

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Agricultura regenerativa renueva el cultivo de fresa en Michoacán

El consumo de yogurt sabor fresa está en nuestro día a día por ser un producto popular entre las familias mexicanas, sobre todo por ese sabor característico entre dulce y perfumado. Sin embargo, es posible pensar que dichos productos son elaborados con sustitutos de fruta.

No obstante, el proyecto Madre Tierra, en Maravatio, Michoacán es una iniciativa para promover la agricultura regenerativa. El objetivo de este programa es mejorar la salud del suelo para mejorar la salud de los consumidores integrando a los productores en el proceso.

Este tipo de agricultura ha permitido implementar nuevas prácticas en el campo para restaurar los suelos donde se siembra, por ejemplo, la rotación de cultivos, la incorporación de materia orgánica como el maíz, las barreras vivas para atraer insectos benéficos para las fresas como las abejas y catarinas, así como el trampeo para el control y monitoreo de plagas como la mosca blanca y la chinche.

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Will Regenerative Agriculture Be the Hottest Trend in 2023?

You can try and ignore it all you want, hoping everything will return to normal. Still, it’s impossible to ignore that not only do we now live in volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) times but it is now being said we are in the midst of a so-called ‘polycrisis.’

In the polycrisis the shocks are disparate, but they interact so that the whole is even more overwhelming than the sum of the parts.

In such dark and uncertain times, it is tempting to bury your head and double down on what you know best, but this could be the worst thing to do. VUCA times require resilient mindsets and bold, brave, resilient businesses.

There is one system that has proved to be resilient for millennia – nature. We can learn from nature’s incredible resilience and adopt the principles that have allowed her to thrive through catastrophic events and dramatic climatic changes.

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Agricultura regenerativa: devolver la vida al suelo

“El suelo es el único material mágico que convierte la muerte en vida”. El filósofo indio Sadhguru, uno de los fundadores del movimiento Salvemos el Suelo, trata de concienciar al mundo sobre la importancia de un cambio de enfoque en los problemas medioambientales: detener la degradación del suelo, una medida urgente e indispensable para ayudar a mitigar la sequía, los incendios forestales y preservar el manto vegetal de la Tierra. El movimiento, que cuenta con el apoyo y participación de las Naciones Unidas y múltiples asociaciones y centros de investigación científica, tiene como principal objetivo impulsar cambios en las políticas nacionales de 193 países para aumentar y mantener el contenido orgánico de los suelos.

Más de la mitad de las tierras agrícolas están degradadas

Según la FAO, aproximadamente el 33% de las tierras del mundo están sufriendo la erosión, la contaminación y la urbanización, y más del 50% de la superficie agrícola ha perdido su equilibrio ecológico por la acción humana.

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