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Regenerative Ag Could Have Major Impact on Organics

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Though a group of panelists agreed that organic farming practices must be the baseline for any official regenerative ag certification, one member of the panel said he does not expect that to happen. And all the members agreed that the regenerative ag movement could have a profound impact on agriculture and on the organic sector.

This informed panel of experts was speaking at the Organic Grower Summit, held in Monterey, California, November 29–30 and put on by Organic Produce Network and Western Growers.

Jessy Beckett Parr, chief program officer for California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) led off the questioning by asking each panelist where they stood regarding the role of organic farming in a regenerative ag certification. In fact, CCOF offers certification to the Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) standard, which requires the USDA organic certification as a prerequisite. But there are others in the movement that do not believe organic farming practices have to necessarily be followed to be labeled regenerative.

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Regeneration is Life – An Agroecological Paradigm to Overtake the Climate Crisis

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On the occasion of the 28th Climate COP, Navdanya International presents “Regeneration is Life – An Agroecological Paradigm to Overtake the Climate Crisis“

There are two main paradigms of thinking of ourselves in the world and of our relationship with the Earth. We either think of ourselves as being separate from Nature or as being one and part of it.

The industrial agriculture paradigm, which sees the world as a machine, and not as a self-organized living system, has created devastation on the planet through extraction and exploitation. Together, the ecologically destructive practices of the industrial agriculture paradigm account for 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), making the global food system one of the main culprits behind climate change and environmental degradation. Acting as if the world were a machine undermines and eventually destroys living processes and organic systems.

Following our Biodiversity is Life booklet, which showcases the deep interconnections between our health and the health of our ecosystems and planet, this new booklet lays out how, today more than ever we need the agroecological cultures of the world to take the forefront and show us what it means to be rooted in harmony with the Earth. The aim should be to work alongside nature to restore its biodiversity and rejuvenate its natural cycles to produce Real Food. These solutions already exist and are being implemented by local, diverse food communities around the world. Showing us that it is possible to walk a path of living in harmony with nature. We are part of the Earth’s systems, our food is a continuum of health from the ecosystems of the earth. We are deeply and inherently interconnected.

The real solution to the ecological and climate crisis does not lie in creating substitutes for food or expanding the industrial paradigm, but in scaling the initiatives all over the world that are already working on healing our connection with the Earth through care.

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Agricultura regenerativa, camino hacia una actividad rentable, competitiva y sostenible

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Durante el primer congreso internacional Manejo regenerativo de suelo: productividad agrícola en la dirección correcta —realizado en Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, el 10 y 11 de noviembre pasado–, organizado por la empresa mexicana Novedades Agrícolas DASA,  expertos en agricultura regenerativa compartieron con productores y representantes empresas agrícolas de México, Estados Unidos, Chile y Colombia, las acciones necesarias para recuperar y mejorar la calidad de los suelos agrícolas mediante la estimulación de la microbiología que habita en éstos, lo que además permite reducir la huella de carbono de la agricultura, así como la dependencia de los fertilizantes químicos.

La conferencia inaugural del evento estuvo a cargo de Gary Zimmer, experto agrícola que desde hace más de 35 años estudia y promueve la agricultura biológica mediante la restauración de los suelos. En su conferencia Un enfoque biológico para la regeneración de la tierra enfatizó la necesidad de una relación equilibrada entre las cualidades químicas, físicas y biológicas del suelo.

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Agricultura regenerativa: con el claro objetivo de regenerar el suelo y el entorno

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La agricultura regenerativa es una tendencia mundial que de a poco ha ido llegando a Chile, potenciada por el deterioro de los ecosistemas y de la calidad de los suelos. De hecho, algunos estudios señalan que el 33% de la superficie mundial se encuentra moderada o altamente degradada. “Los suelos de mayor calidad (aquellos de clase I y clase II) ya se encuentran con medios o altos niveles de compactación y con otros problemas de degradación, lo que limita la cantidad y calidad de la producción agrícola”, afirma Pascal Michelow, especialista en cubiertas vegetales.

A partir de esta situación, varias empresas internacionales de alimentos están buscando alinearse con las exigencias del Pacto Verde Europeo, presentado en diciembre de 2019 por la Comisión Europea, y que busca impulsar medidas contra el cambio climático hacia el año 2030.

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From GMOs to Regenerative Agriculture: A Scientist’s Journey

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It’s not often that a scientist will transition from the narrow-focused science of genetically modified crops to the natural systems approach of regenerative agriculture. But that’s what happened to Laura Kavanaugh, who worked as a scientist for biotech company Syngenta for 12 years helping to develop GMO crops. Today, she is the new chief science officer for Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), which works with farmers to help them transition to regenerative agriculture.

While working at Syngenta, Kavanaugh began to see the problems with the GMO approach.

“We create something as a GMO to try to overcome something in nature, but nature never sleeps,” says Kavanaugh, who has a PhD in genetics and genomics from Duke University. “There are billions of microbes, billions of everything that are eventually going to eventually crack that (GMO) code.”

She realized that the GMO approach wasn’t a good long-term solution because it produces a short-term impact.

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Agricultura regenerativa resalta entre expertos

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Expertos en el agro resaltaron la agricultura regenerativa y las buenas prácticas agrícolas, durante un foro organizado por el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA).

Durante el Diálogo Borlaug, los expertos tocaron temas, como buenas prácticas, conservación de los recursos naturales y aumento de productividad, todo enmarcado en el tema principal: agricultura regenerativa.

El director general del IICA, Manuel Otero, explicó que la regeneración es el acto de reparar algo dañado y devolverlo a su estado original.

“El concepto de agricultura regenerativa se refiere a la adopción de buenas prácticas que ya se realizan en la región, como siembra con labranza mínima y uso de cultivos de cobertura, entre otros”, explicó Otero.

Gestión adecuada de suelos

Por su parte, uno de los científicos que lidera junto al IICA el Programa Suelos Vivos en las Américas, Rattan Lal, aseguró que con la gestión adecuada de los suelos, el potencial de captura de carbono es grande.

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Necesaria política pública de fomento a prácticas de agricultura regenerativa

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Ciudad de México, 1o. de noviembre.- Hoy en día en el medio rural  los huracanes, heladas, inundaciones y sequías son una constante, ante ello, el uso de los biofertilizantes es oportunidad para hacer frente al problema recurrente, además de que es urgente emprender acciones de fondo para dar viabilidad a la producción de alimentos en un entorno de cambio climático.

Refirió Marcel Morales Ibarra, experto en temas agrícolas y desarrollo rural. Explicó que en el caso de la sequía, la aplicación de dichos insumos en la región centro del país, se logró disminuir las pérdidas en el cultivo del maíz entre 70 y 80 por ciento, frente a la pérdida o siniestro total que alcanzaron las parcelas donde sólo se usaron agroquímicos.

Para el especialista, dicha práctica “debe llevarnos a pensar en la necesidad de cambiar las prácticas de producción agro alimentaria, mediante el uso de bioinsumos, que no sólo permiten mayores niveles de producción y productividad, sino que representan respuesta al grave problema del cambio climático”.

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Regenerative Agriculture Slated to Restore Ecosystems As Pressure Mounts in F&B Sectors

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The food agriculture sector faces mounting pressure to reduce its contributions to climate change. While agriculture accounts for around 34% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from farming, deforestation and transportation activities in supply chains, the F&B sector recognizes the imperative to act on climate change, sparking interest in regenerative agriculture’s potential to restore ecosystems and sequester carbon.

Concurrently, 60% of consumers globally now rate sustainability as an essential purchase factor, driving demand for sustainably sourced products ever higher, according to FoodChain ID, a company that has been providing integrated food safety, quality and sustainability services to the global agrifoods industry since 1996.

Food Ingredients First speaks to FoodChain ID ahead of the company’s webinar on regenerative agriculture, which will be broadcast on November 8, 2023.

Dr. Ruud Overbeek, senior vice president of corporate development and strategic relationships at FoodChain ID, says agriculture is under pressure to demonstrate and improve its sustainable credentials.

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A Week on a Regenerative Dairy Farm

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In November 2019, I found myself on the other side of the planet, at Yandoit Farm, in the middle of the Australian countryside. I was part of a cohort of around twenty eclectics who had come to learn the concepts and applications of permaculture (and the joys of spring camping) over a two-week period. From these fourteen intense days of training, I came away with a head full of inspiration, ideas and projects to transpose onto the plot of land awaiting my arrival in Quebec a few months later. In spite of my enthusiasm, there was still an uneasy feeling in the back of my mind: how could I, as a proud descendant of five generations of farmers, combine permaculture and its principles with modern dairy and livestock farming?

Life has more than one twist and turn, and now, almost exactly four years later, I find myself in New York State attending a course in regenerative dairy production offered by Soil Health Academy.

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We Must Still Define Regenerative Agriculture

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Imagine a sandwich that actually made you – and the world – healthier by virtue of making it. This dream is held by hard-nosed ranchers, coastal vegans, corporate types, and hippy homesteaders alike. The term they often use to describe the dream is “regenerative agriculture.” Leo DiCaprio even has a venture capital fund that evokes the term. Surely we can’t all want the same thing for once, right?

Nobody knows because there isn’t a clear or agreed definition of what regenerative agriculture means, putting it at risk of being yet another term greenwashed into meaninglessness, like “humane” or “free-range”, 1984-style. Regenerative agriculture has been used to describe a plethora of agriculture practices: Cover-cropping, no-till biodynamic farming, organic permaculture, sustainable agroforestry, the three sisters, but, most frequently, livestock grazing. These forms of farming aim to restore the terribly depleted soil, which harbors microorganisms and fungi that naturally sequester carbon and nitrogen, fight pests, and reduce erosion and pollution.

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