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Regeneration International (RI) is one of the largest and most significant regenerative organizations on the planet, with over 500 partners in over 70 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australasia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe. We are the people who started the global regeneration movement.
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Dear Regenerators,

Regeneration International (RI) is one of the largest and most significant regenerative organizations on the planet, with over 500 partners in over 70 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australasia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe. We are the people who started the global regeneration movement.
 
Leaders of the organic, agroecology, holistic management, environmental, and natural health movements came together to form Regeneration International as a genuinely inclusive and representative umbrella organization. We aimed to establish a global network of like-minded agricultural, environmental, health, and social organizations to regenerate our food and farming systems, our health, environment, climate, and communities - which is what we have done.
 
We started the global regeneration movement, and due to our founding actions, regeneration is in the news daily. Regeneration International continues to lead, grow and approve more partners every month.
 
Due to the diversity of like-minded partners, regenerative agriculture is now being used as an umbrella term for the many farming systems that use techniques such as longer rotations, cover crops, green manures, legumes, compost, and organic fertilizers. These farming systems include organic agriculture, agroforestry, agroecology, permaculture, holistic grazing, silvopasture, syntropic farming, and other agricultural systems that increase soil organic matter/carbon. Soil organic matter is an essential proxy for soil health - as soils with low levels are not healthy.
 
Dr. Vandana Shiva, one of our founders, stated: “Regenerative agriculture provides answers to the soil crisis, the food crisis, the climate crisis, and the crisis of democracy.”
 
Defining Regenerative Agriculture.
 
By definition: Regenerative systems improve the environment, soil, health, animal welfare, and communities.
 
The opposite of Regenerative is Degenerative
 
By definition: Agricultural systems that use Degenerative practices and inputs that damage the environment, soil, health, and communities and involve animal cruelty, such as synthetic toxic pesticides, synthetic water-soluble fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, confined animal feeding operations, and destructive tillage systems, are not Regenerative.
 
They must be called out as Degenerative Agriculture.
 
Regenerative and Organic based on Agroecology - the path forward.
 
RI's perspective: All agricultural systems should be regenerative and organic using the science of agroecology.
 
Regeneration must be seen as a way to improve systems and heal our planet. Practitioners must determine what practices are acceptable and what practices are degenerative and, therefore, unacceptable. The criteria to analyze this must be based on the Four Principles of Organic Agriculture. These principles are clear and effective ways to decide what practices are Regenerative and what are Degenerative:
 
Health
Organic agriculture should sustain and enhance the health of soil, plant, animal, human, and the planet as one and indivisible.
 
Ecology
Organic agriculture should be based on living ecological systems and cycles, work with them, emulate them and help sustain them.
 
Fairness
Organic agriculture should build on relationships that ensure fairness in the familiar environment and life opportunities.
 
Care
Organic agriculture should be managed in a precautionary and responsible manner to protect the health and well-being of current and future generations and the environment.
 
Ronnie Cummins, one of our founders, clearly stated: “Regenerative agriculture and animal husbandry is the next and higher stage of organic food and farming, not only free from toxic pesticides, GMOs, chemical fertilizers, and factory farm production, and therefore good for human health; but also regenerative in terms of the health of the soil.”

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Dr. Andre Leu
International Director, Regeneration International

 

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Dear Friends of Regeneration International
 
Regenerative Agriculture is under attack by agribusiness. The poison cartels such as Bayer/Monsanto and Syngenta, along with their captive government departments, are trying to hijack regenerative agriculture to greenwash their degenerative systems.

“We need your participation and support as we move forward in this world-changing campaign we call Regeneration International. We need to build a massive international alliance to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, to sequester billions of tons of excess atmospheric carbon in our soils and biota, to regenerate billions of acres of degraded ecosystems, to eliminate rural poverty, to reverse our deteriorating public health and to revitalize rural communities all over the globe. The hour is late, but we still have time to regenerate.”

Please support our campaign to stop this greenwashing and ensure Regenerative Agriculture’s integrity by restoring farmer’s independence, promoting social justice, fair trade and regenerating ecological health.

Can you give $10 monthly or a one time donation today to support Regeneration International and our campaigns?

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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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