regenerative agriculture Concepts

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words

of crops, rotate those crops, use compost to replenish the nutrients in the soil, and eliminate chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Re-embracing these practices of regenerative agriculture will nurture healthy soil, which makes for healthy plants that collect atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis. This CO2 is used to both build their tissues and

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the USDA is doing for agriculture—stop subsidizing commodity crops, industrial ag that trashes the planet, and instead give a lot more resources to incentivize regenerative agriculture, like cover crops—we’d be in good shape. Ayana: I love this concrete list of things that need to change now. Leah: The good

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peanut and sweet potato inventions. Apparently he also discovered at least two species of fungus. This guy was super cool. He’s the father of regenerative agriculture in this country. But something I learned more recently about him is his deeply spiritual nature when it came to his relationship to the forest

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removal, biodiversity outcomes, circular systems (as a way to manage waste), and pollution control. We invest in everything from sustainable forestry and land management, to regenerative agriculture and sustainable aquaculture, to lab-made proteins, to plant-based packaging, to more efficient manufacturing processes and buildings that use less energy and water, to

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the ocean, and kelp gathers them up. For example, kelp is a stunning biostimulant for soil health and plant health. Recently, I was at a regenerative agriculture conference of like 200 people, and I was the only ocean person there. And all the land farmers were saying, “We have a nutrient crisis

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organic certification, 75 problems and possibilities, 13, 34, 35, 56–57, 80–81 what transformation looks like, 429 See also food systems; gardens; ocean farming; regenerative agriculture agroforestry, 57 ahupua’a, 46–47 AI (artificial intelligence), 109–10, 119–21, 432 Suleyman on the risks and potential of, 120–35 air pollution

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for Black children, xvii inequities faced by Black farmers, 77–79 the New Orleans second line, 102, 372 Penniman on food sovereignty, food justice, and regenerative agriculture, 68–85 Pichon Battle on organizing and climate justice in, 364–79 redlining in, 287 reparations and other legislation to support Black farmers, 79, 83

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, 112 carbon capture and storage, 26, 127, 184, 186, 192–93 artificial methods for, 26, 192–93 in forest and coastal ecosystems, 21, 25, 35 regenerative agriculture and, 57, 67 in soils, 25, 40, 57, 67, 81 carbon cycle, 40, 67–68, 80–81 carbon dioxide, 17n, 81 See also atmospheric carbon

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food systems: Donahue on reviving regional agriculture, 50–63 Penniman on food sovereignty, food justice, and regenerative agriculture, 68–85 problems and possibilities, 34, 67–68, 70–71 what transformation looks like, 429 See also agriculture; regenerative agriculture food waste, 200 Foote, Eunice Newton, 14 forest ecosystems, 21, 25, 34, 35, 51 deforestation, 12

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–98 as obstacle to action, 195, 293 ocean farming development and, 415 ocean justice advocacy, 318–19, 320 Penniman on food justice, food sovereignty, and regenerative agriculture, 68–85 Pichon Battle on organizing and climate justice in South Louisiana, 364–79 rights of nature protections, 261, 326–27, 376 youth activism and

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, 400–419 Schwartz on, 38–47 vs. technological solutions, 25–26, 40–41, 46, 134–35 what transformation looks like, 46–47, 428 See also regenerative agriculture nature rights, laws recognizing, 261, 326–27, 376 NDCs. See nationally determined contributions (NDCs) NDN Collective, 382, 383 See also Begay, Jade negotiations, 264 Nelsen

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, Kate, 159 Rawsthorn, Alice, 106, 109 recycling, 88, 89, 105–6, 193, 195, 200, 229 redlining, 100n, 287 Redwood Materials, 193 reforestation, 25, 35, 51 regenerative agriculture, 67–68, 70, 79 benefits and potential of, 79–81 climate-friendly farming methods, 43–44, 56–57, 67–68 ocean farming, 304, 307, 316

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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac · 25 Feb 2020 · 197pp · 49,296 words

-Koehler, 2017. NATURE Baker, Nick. ReWild: The Art of Returning to Nature. London: Aurum, 2017. Brown, Gabe. Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture. London: Chelsea Green, 2018. Eisenstein, Charles. Climate: A New Story. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 2018. Glassley, William E. A Wilder Time: Notes from a

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider · 15 Dec 2024 · 346pp · 84,111 words

Indigenous political power with the rallying cry: “Defend, Develop, and Decolonize.” Starting in 2017, NDN Fund began with a vision to indigenize large-scale development, regenerative agriculture, food sovereignty, and equitable economic growth. Its parent organization, NDN Collective, is an advocacy organization for building Indigenous power. Creating the fund was a fundamental

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

by Chris Smaje · 14 Aug 2020 · 375pp · 105,586 words

of alternative agriculture – intensification and biomimicry – before touching on how the solutions and difficulties faced by the movement play out in three specific approaches: organics, regenerative agriculture and permaculture. Alternative Agriculture as (Bio)Intensification Sceptics of alternative agriculture sometimes say that if it worked there’d be no need for the word

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medium of diversity is strong. Some Alternative Agriculture Movements When people talk about alternative agriculture, they often home in on specific approaches such as organics, regenerative agriculture and permaculture rather than underlying principles such as intensification or biomimicry. I’d now like to turn to specific approaches, using these three as examples

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that are more vulnerable to erosion. Therein lies a universal rule: in agriculture, there are no universal rules. The same goes for no-till and regenerative agriculture, which isn’t optimal in every possible situation.29 The other way to go, organically, is to collect sources of organic fertility and apply them

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capacities are is critical if humanity is to steer beyond its present crises. This is one of the strongest arguments for a small farm future. Regenerative Agriculture Regenerative agriculture is a more recent and less formally organised movement than organics. It shares organics’ concern with soil health but deepens it via an emphasis in

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by growing a diversity of plants that develop symbiotic relationships with soil organisms. Therefore, proponents of regenerative agriculture emphasise the first three practices listed in the left-hand column of Table 6.1. Table 6.1. Regenerative agriculture practices and projected outcomes PRACTICES PROJECTED OUTCOMES 1. Minimum or no tillage 1. Soil building/soil

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of grazing livestock 8. Increased global food availability 6. Inoculation of soil fungi 9. Improved human health 7. Elimination of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides Other regenerative agriculture proponents emphasise some, but not always all, of the other practices listed in the left-hand column of the table. Here, I’ll just mention

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, though, if crops are sold off the holding then the stocks are depleted, and this seems likely to be an unavoidable long-term constraint.34 Regenerative agriculture proponents typically emphasise the higher nutrient values in their soils, while ignoring or dismissing long-term drawdown. Perhaps this is the alternative farming movement’s

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methods’, as articulated in the Nyéléni declaration. In Part II, I examined various candidates for what might constitute such methods – organic farming, no-till farming, regenerative agriculture, permaculture, perennial cropping and forest gardening, as well as more conventional options like the arable corner. All of these have valuable things to teach, but

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. Bregman, Rutger. 2017. Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There. London: Bloomsbury. Brown, Gabe. 2018. Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green. Buchmann, Tina, et al. 2018. ‘Connecting Experimental Biodiversity Research to Real-World Grasslands,’ Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and

The Soil Will Save Us

by Kristin Ohlson · 14 Oct 2014

named Terry Gompert and some farmers there found out that the soil microbes love it. New insights like that spread quickly through the world of regenerative agriculture. Collins shook his head. “No milk.” Then, “Sorry I smell like fish. But it’s good to spray this stuff right after it rains and

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’s a new business plan for me: creating turnkey farms from the soil up for my clients, working landscapes with the most advanced ideas from regenerative agriculture. This is expensive land, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get it to the point where they can make money

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was built by people from the University of California–Berkeley’s environmental engineering department. “We want legitimacy,” Traverse explained. “Most of us who are doing regenerative agriculture really feel strongly that we are making a difference, but there’s a substantial lack of documentation to convince the rest of the world. Our

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know how to increase soil carbon.” For years, farmers and ranchers had been talking about the need for hard data to quantify the achievements of regenerative agriculture. The Soil Carbon Challenge was finally kicked off when a few of them attended a conference and heard a government scientist say that he didn

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for all agriculturalists to transition to sustainable agriculture (which Peter Donovan describes as “ruining the land more slowly”) or, better yet, to Gabe Brown–like regenerative agriculture! Adam Chambers calculates that of the 914 million acres of farmland in the United States, only 4.3 percent is enrolled in some kind of

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1993 and then served as governer of Western Australia unil 2000. Upon leaving that post, he founded a nonprofit called Soils for Life, which encourages regenerative agriculture and collects case studies from farmers and ranchers who have made the transition. In his new role as soil advocate, he’s insisting that Australia

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farmers who have largely left chemical, conventional agriculture behind challenges powerful vested interests. Even individual farmers caught up in conventional agriculture resist the narrative from regenerative agriculture because they have made such huge investments in the current system. Back in the 1970s, Earl Butz, head of the USDA under Richard Nixon and

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, and most of their funding is based on improving that system, not changing it. And even if researchers win federal dollars to conduct experiments in regenerative agriculture or investigate problems with Big Ag, they risk antagonizing university administrators, who keep an anxious eye on the continuing good graces of their corporate sponsors

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words

electricity globally. There’s also burgeoning technology for harnessing the energy of waves and currents, and for floating solar panels. Regenerative ocean farming Similar to regenerative agriculture on land, which aims to rebuild soil organic matter, absorb carbon and promote biodiversity, we can farm the ocean back to health. Specifically, farming seaweed

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel · 12 Aug 2020 · 286pp · 87,168 words

or not we actually need it, we can decide what kinds of things we want to grow (sectors like clean energy, public healthcare, essential services, regenerative agriculture – you name it), and what sectors need to radically degrow (things like fossil fuels, private jets, arms and SUVs). We can also scale down the

The Ministry for the Future: A Novel

by Kim Stanley Robinson · 5 Oct 2020 · 583pp · 182,990 words

way between Left and Congress leadership. Much has been taken from Kerala and applied nationally. Then also Sikkim and Bengal have been developing an organic regenerative agriculture that, at the same time it provides more food than before, also sequesters more carbon in the soil, and this too has been taken up

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must hitch your tiger to your chariot. He went out with them to the fields outside the city where they were working in the India Regenerative Agriculture job guarantee program. There was full employment in India now, and the work was hard but it was scientifically based too, and drawing carbon into

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who wouldn’t be? We don’t want what happened to them to happen in China, or anywhere else. So now they’re teaching us regenerative agriculture, and we need it. But of course it keeps coming back to how we pay for these good things. I suppose, Mary groused. Chan smiled

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seeing was only slightly explained by continuing ocean uptake. The majority was being drawn down by reforestation, biochar, agroforestry, kelp bed and other seaweed growth, regenerative agriculture, reduced and improved ranching, direct CO2 capture from the air, and so on. All these efforts were paid for, or rather rewarded beyond the expense

Carbon: The Book of Life

by Paul Hawken · 17 Mar 2025 · 250pp · 63,703 words

agriculture: “bass-ackwards.” Plant breeders have spent a century creating seed varieties that grow in impoverished soils when we should have focused on soil restoration. Regenerative agriculture has a simple maxim: create more life, above and below, step-by-step. Soil tests reveal much about the soil, but so do the weeds

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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words

has continuously maintained its sovereignty for over four centuries since the European invasion. The island has maintained this autonomy via communal landownership and systems of regenerative agriculture. Although the living conditions in the territory are fraught with many external pressures, with an estimated 3,000 members of the Kalinago tribe out of