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Regeneration 2022: Requiem or Revival?
The ambitious goal of Regeneration International is to “change the global conversation” on food, farming, and climate. Our strategy is to inspire and mobilize the global grassroots with the revolutionary message that the climate crisis can be solved, in fact, that global warming and its collateral damage to public health, the environment, biodiversity, and economic livelihoods, can actually be reversed through a global scaling up of organic and regenerative best practices in combination with a transition to renewable energy...
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RI ON THE GROUND
We're seeing record temperatures in the Global South. The effect of change of land use and deforestation becomes more and more patent through the changes of temperature.
The case for Regeneration has never been more urgent. We have reached a point in time where more and more people are feeling the effects of climate change in their everyday lives. The loss of biodiversity is becoming more evident, we are witnessing more floods and droughts, the world is becoming hotter and fires are more frequent and devastating.
The time for change is now, and it will take all of our global efforts to embrace frameworks that lead us to being better managers of our environments as well as help us pick on best practices, mobilize and address the root causes of the problems we are facing.
This year for our newsletter we want to start sharing with you dispatches from the field: updates on what is happening globally and messages of hope and resilience that could turn the tide...
What happened at the UNFCCC COP26 and how RI could promote soil health and regenerative agriculture to reverse climate change at COP27 in Egypt
In November of last year, Regeneration International sent a delegation to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend the 26th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Nearly 200 countries negotiate emissions reductions and climate change mitigation goals to limit global temperature rise by 1,5C.
Days before attending, the 4 Per 1000 Initiative online platform notified its partners that Soil Heroes, a small foundation based in the Netherlands were calling all carbon farming advocates to sign an open letter addressed to Alok Sharma the CEO of the UNFCCC COP26 to recognize soil health as a major solution to climate mitigation – an initiative we decided to support and share with the world...
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Essential Reading and Viewing
A Return to Native Agriculture
Three Native Americans, living in different landscapes and nurtured by different tribal cultures, all share the same goal: to ensure that the traditional Indigenous ways of gathering, growing, husbanding, and serving food are preserved. They are part of a movement, small enough to be barely noticeable in the world of industrial agriculture, but strong enough to be growing steadily, powered by enduring links to Native history and culture.
Why Regenerative Agriculture Will Reverse Climate Change
Regenerative agriculture describes farming practices that create a cycle of caring for the soil through responsible grazing and land management. It’s a general term that encompasses a range of practices from composting to pasture cropping. The primary goal of regenerative agriculture is to enhance and retain the biodiversity in soil that has been continuously stripped for generations.
Growing Soil for a Regenerative Future
It’s hard to open an agricultural publication these days without reading the words “regenerative agriculture”. The words are new, but the practices are as old as agrarian civilization. The concept is easy — work with nature rather than against it. The management practices, on the other hand, can be as diverse as the farms that implement them.
Regenerative Agriculture Receives Government Boost
The Government is investing in farm sustainability, this time backing two new research projects to investigate the impacts of regenerative farming practices. The announcement coincides with World Soil Day, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management, fighting soil salinisation, increasing soil awareness and encouraging societies to improve soil health.
Agroecology Can Be Our New Food System
We are under constant pressure today to optimise – our bodies, the way we work and how we produce food. Uniformity is the rule, instead of diversity. But this industrial way of intensive food production is killing our living planet and locks people up in poverty. It’s time for a radical sustainable agricultural turnround.
A Call for Governments to Save Soil
Microbiologist Jo Handelsman takes on the challenge of making readers care in A World Without Soil, aided by environmental researcher Kayla Cohen. Their prologue takes the form of a letter about soil erosion that Handelsman wishes she had sent to US president Barack Obama while working in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy in the mid-2010s. Alas, she did not understand the true gravity of the problem until the waning days of the administration. Her biggest regret? That she wasn’t able to make soil management the federal priority she thinks it should be.
Farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado Cotton On to the Benefits of Agroecology
Antonio Marcos, who runs a local cooperative, convinced [nearby] farmers to dedicate just 1 hectare (2.5 acres) of their land to the project. He guided them through the four fundamental stages: planning and soil preparation, planting, care, and harvest.
Video: Osmar Aldair | 2021 at Vía Orgánica´s huerto in Mexico
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Upcoming Events |
In Person:
02/24 - Soil Health and Regenerative Ag | Ohio, USA
02/26 - Hybrid event – Regenerative Agriculture for Climate Emergency | BC, CA
02/27 - Hybrid event – California Small Farm Conference | CA, USA
Online:
02/05 - Agroinnovación con talento femenino
02/09 - Séptima conferencia del agricultor latino
02/09 - Transición de un sistema de producción convencional a orgánico
02/09 - Strategic Farming 2022: Let’s talk cover crops
02/15 - 2022 Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture Series
02/16 - Agricultura orgánica: comenzando desde cero
02/16 - How Nature Based Farming Techniques can Positively Impact Farms
02/16 - Strategic Farming 2022: Let’s talk tar spot of corn
02/23 - Building a Career in Sustainability: Ask Regenerative Agriculture Leaders
02/24 - Vale of Belvoir meeting: Reducing inputs and regenerative agriculture
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Regeneration International is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, dedicated to building a global network of farmers, scientists, businesses, activists, educators, journalists, policymakers and consumers who will promote and put into practice regenerative agriculture and land-use practices that: provide abundant, nutritious food; revitalize local economies; regenerate soil fertility and water-retention capacity; nurture biodiversity; and restore climate stability by reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time drawing down excess atmospheric carbon and sequestering it in the soil.
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