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.
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.
Indigenous farming and ranching practices are once again being embraced in an American West stressed by drought, diminishing resources, and climate change.
La regeneración ambiental se puede medir con parámetros objetivos.
Esto permite distinguir los predios que realmente regeneran, de aquellos que usan el término para obtener ventajas comerciales. El EOV (Ecological Outcome Verification) del Instituto Savory provee una métrica común para medir la regeneración en todo el mundo.
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.
Regenerative agriculture operates in multiple ways to produce a soil health benefit. A systems approach that relies on the adherence to principles rather than certifications and prescriptions guides regenerative agriculture implementation.
The Government is investing in farm sustainability, this time backing two new research projects to investigate the impacts of regenerative farming practices.
“We’re contributing $2.8 million to a $3.85 million five-year project with co-investment by Synlait Milk and Danone that aims to understand how to measure and manage soil health to boost environmental and economic performance on New Zealand farms,” Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor announced on Sunday.
La agricultura regenerativa está siendo aclamada como una alternativa para la producción de alimentos con menor impacto ambiental por los responsables políticos, los agricultores y las empresas alimentarias.
Returning farmland to its natural, unfarmed status doesn’t makes sense says Francesca Cotrufo, a soil specialist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. The world needs to be fed. However, she added, farming must be done in a way that collects more carbon than it emits.
Por Kham Deuang is a farmer elder of Buriram, Thailand who has practiced regeneration in his own way for over 40 years and inspired many with his wisdom and ways.