This Is How Regenerative Best Practices Can Reverse Global Warming

Before September 2014, hardly anyone had heard of regenerative agriculture. Now it is in the news everyday all around the world.

Regenerative farming and land use systems such as agroforestry, agroecology, permaculture, holistic grazing or pasture cropping among others restore biodiversity, improve the water cycle and sequester vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in the soil and above ground as organic matter.

We really don’t have time to waste on farming or land use systems that only sequester small amounts of CO2. We need to concentrate on qualitatively scaling up systems that can achieve high levels of carbon sequestration that are appropriate for different regions.

Scaling up only a small percentage (5-10%) of best practice regenerative systems will result in billions of tons (Gt) of CO2 per year being sequestered into the soil and into continuous, perennial above ground biomass.

Read “Best Practices: How Regenerative & Organic Agriculture and Land Use Can Reverse Global Warming”

 

 

One of these best practices is pasture cropping, a revolutionary regenerative cover cropping system developed by Australian farmers. Learn how farmers Colin Seis and Neils Olsen, pioneers of this “no kill, no till” farming system are building healthy soil, improving their productivity and profitability and even being paid by the Australian Government to sequester carbon!

Read: “Pasture Cropping—The Innovative No-kill, No-till System Developed by Australian Farmers”

Essential Reading

US Farm Policy Agenda for Regenerative Farming

A transition from industrial to regenerative agriculture will require fundamental changes in farm policies. The 2020 presidential campaigns provided compelling evidence of growing political support for such fundamental changes and on the other hand, various nonprofit organizations and think-tanks have developed political agendas around the principles in the Green New Deal such as the Green New Deal Policy Series.

Soil Health: How to Take a Seemingly Impossible Path to Healthy Soil

Farmers from Idaho Luke and Brian share their soil health journey and how they became innovators in cover cropping and limiting disturbance.

Plant-based Meat Doesn't Stack up as a Planet Saver, Scientists Warn

Scientists are calling out the false promise that ultra-processed plant products are a climate-friendly alternative to meat.

The Soil-Keeping Approach to Regenerative Justice: 7 Principles

Soil fertility, like justice, is a dynamic condition that enables life to thrive over time. Maintaining both requires a diverse web of entities to continually recalibrate how they behave in step with shifting circumstances and led by those most impacted by those changes.

The Immense Potential Of Forests To Sequester Carbon

A conversation with two forestry management and carbon offset program experts to discuss the potencial of forests and better forest management in sequestering carbon.

Video of the month

Did you miss the live presentation about the game-changing Billion Agave Project by Ronnie Cummins, International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and Andre Leu, International Director of Regeneration International?

The Billion Agave Project is an agroforestry and holistic livestock management system in the high-desert region of Guanajuato, Mexico, Regeneration International and local farmers have recently developed. The project’s goal is to plant four billion agaves globally, alongside one billion nitrogen-fixing trees, on five million acres to sequester one billion tons of climate-destabilizing CO2.

Watch the presentation here

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In Person:
04/17 - Curso de Sistemas Agroflorestales Sintrópicos | Buenos Aires, Argentina

Online:
04/7 -  Soil Health Benchmarks Learning Community: Row Crop Cohort Meeting
04/8 - Getting to Know the ‘Good Bugs’ – Scouting for Pollinators and Other Beneficial Insects
04/8 - Growing in the Green: mixes and mulches
04/8 - Supporting Pollinators over Time: How to Maintain Wildflower Diversity
04/8 - Soil Health Forum - Can You Dig It?
04/9-21 - Permaculture Design Course
04/9-15 - Online Ecovillage Summit
04/12 - Seminario de regeneración y recarbonización de suelos agrícolas y pecuarios
04/12 - Soil Health Benchmarks Learning Community: Pastured Livestock Cohort Meeting
04/13 - Foundations of Regenerative Organizations – Live Cohort
04/14 - Research Update: Reducing Tillage in Organic Grain Systems
04/15 - Regenerative Agriculture, Climate Change and Biodiversity
04/15 - Regenerative Agriculture Webinar
04/17 - Workshop: Compost Like a Pro
04/17 - Edible Landscapes
04/19 - Curso Online - Especialización en Manejo Holístico
04/20 - Regenerative Earth Summit – Session 4
04/21 - Economic Benefits of Healthy Soil Improvement Practices
04/23 - Soil Health 101: Bringing nutrients back to your yard
04/24 - Film: The Biggest Little Farm
04/24 - Soil- Really Important Tiny Lives
04/24 - Regenerative Agriculture for the Home Garden
04/26 - Soil: the missing ingredient in the climate challenge
04/27 - Soil Health 101
04/28 - Research Update: Grain Nutrient Density in the Farming Systems Trial
04/28 - Restoring Our Earth: Regenerative Agriculture Forum
04/29 - Regenerative Food
04/29 - The Role of Regenerative Agriculture and Biodiversity in the Future of Food
04/29 - TEDxSustainableFoodTrust
05/1 - Workshop: Hobby Beekeeping

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