Regenerative Agriculture
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26-11-2019 Session: With increasing threat of climate crisis, soil loss, and continued economic challenges to farmers, building extremely robust and healthy soils provides the whole systems approach that is affordable and immediately available to all farmers. At its premise it is biologically based using...
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Session: With increasing threat of climate crisis, soil loss, and continued economic challenges to farmers, building extremely robust and healthy soils provides the whole systems approach that is affordable and immediately available to all farmers. At its premise it is biologically based using...
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The key difference between regenerative agriculture and sustainable agriculture is the intention to regenerate, or renew, the productivity and growth potential of whatever is being regenerated. Sustainable practices, by definition, seek to maintain the same, whereas regenerative practices...
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Jimi Sol Regenerative agriculture is an effective way to restore biodiversity and stabilize the climate, but what exactly is it? This video explores three different regenerative practices that have great potential both in food production and in healing the land.
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Roland Bunch What are these benefits for smallholder farmers practicing regenerative agriculture, and what are theydoing to achieve them? First and foremost, eachwants to have enough food to feed his family. This is the highest priority goal of virtually all smallholder farmers in any developing...
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01-10-2019 This two part session will give an overview of what regenerative agriculture is, using case studies of the potential for regenerative agriculture to heal ecosystems and sequester carbon, while producing food. A quickly growing movement in both the Global North and the Global South, regenerative...
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The Johnson-Su Bioreactor method of creating compost is quite different from other composting methods in several respects. The most common commercial windrow composting processes are usually designed and operated for speed and maximum product flow. Unfortunately, this focus does not allow the...
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Healthy soil is teaming with life in the form of billions of microscopic soil organisms. A teaspoon of healthy soil can contain more soil microorganisms than there are people on earth. The soil microorganisms found in healthy, or “living soil,” have important functions including converting...
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Abstract, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Despite several lines of observational evidence, there is a lack of consensus on whether higher fungal:bacterial (F:B) ratios directly cause higher soil carbon (C) storage. We employed RNA sequencing, protein profiling and isotope tracer techniques to...
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What is regenerative agriculture? Why is it different fromsustainable agriculture? And how do I reconcile what practitioners of this system are claiming with the scientific evidence?
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Conventional wisdom has long held that the world cannot be fed without chemicals and synthetic fertilizers. Evidence points to a new wisdom: The world cannot be fed unless the soil is fed. Regenerative agriculture enhances and sustains the health of the soil by restoring its carbon content, which...
- Abstract,Basic and Applied Ecology, 2019 Agroecosystems represent a large geographical footprint in most terrestrial landscapes, and management decisions within these systems affect their function in species conservation. We evaluated the effects that rangeland management systems (based on...
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Abstract, Nature Communications, 2019 Increasing the potential of soil to store carbon (C) is an acknowledged and emphasized strategy for capturing atmospheric CO2. Well-recognized approaches for soil C accretion include reducing soil disturbance, increasing plant biomass inputs, and enhancing...
- Abstract,Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2018 Global crop yield gains have not be associated with increases in the many macro- and micro-nutrients needed for a balanced human diet. There is thus growing interest in improving agricultural practices to increase nutrient availability to...
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Mission The Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems (CRARS) aims to investigate, develop, demonstrate, and educate about comprehensive, regenerative practices that both restore and enhance the resiliency of living systems. Why this work is important? As a society, we have...
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Abstract, Agronomy, 2019 Phosphorus is an essential macronutrient required for plant growth and development. It is central to many biological processes, including nucleic acid synthesis, respiration, and enzymatic activity. However, the strong adsorption of phosphorus by minerals in the soil...
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The Savory Institute develops innovative tools and curricula, informs policy, establishes market incentives, increases public awareness, and coordinates research: cultivating relationships with aligned partners.
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The Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Salina, Kansas, that was founded in 1976. The Land Institute’s work, led by ateam of plant breeders and ecologistsinmultiple partnerships worldwide, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to...
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Abstract, Nature Communication, 2019 The soil microbiome is highly diverse and comprises up to one quarter of Earth’s diversity. Yet, how such a diverse and functionally complex microbiome influences ecosystem functioning remains unclear. Here we manipulated the soil microbiome in experimental...
- Regenerative agriculture is gaining momentum as a solution for providing positive environmental outcomes, while meeting the growing demand for food and fibre. However, there are competing approaches for how to balance the need for and impact of agriculture. One approach, ‘sustainable...
- Tittonell P, El Mujtar V, Felix G, Kebede Y, Laborda L, Luján Soto R and de Vente J (2022) Regenerative agriculture—agroecology without politics? Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:844261. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.844261 Regenerative agriculture is gaining momentum worldwide among practitioners,...
- Gosnell H, Charnley S,Stanley P. 2020 Climate change mitigation as aco-benefit of regenerative ranching: insightsfrom Australia and the United States.InterfaceFocus10: 20200027.http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2020.0027 ‘Managed grazing’ is gaining attention for its potential to contribute to...
- Luna IM, Fernández-Quintanilla C, Dorado J. Is Pasture Cropping a Valid Weed Management Tool. Plants (Basel). 2020 Jan 21;9(2):135. doi: 10.3390/plants9020135. PMID: 31973212; PMCID: PMC7076652. The aim of the present work was to study the feasibility of pasture cropping under the Mediterranean...
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Lightning Talk, ECHOEast Africa Pastoralist Symposium, March 29, 2022. Presenter: Jeremy Lowney
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Joel Dunn, Permaculture News, June, 2012 Pasture cropping is a farmer-initiated land management system that seamlessly integrates cropping with pasture production, and allows grain growing to function as part of a truly perennial agriculture. Annual winter growing (C3) cereal crops are direct...
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O’Donoghue, T.; Minasny, B.; McBratney, A. Regenerative Agriculture and Its Potential to Improve Farmscape Function.Sustainability2022,14, 5815. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105815 Recent reviews have identified major themes within regenerative agriculture—soil health, biodiversity, and...
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Syrie M. Hermans,1 Gavin Lear,2 Bradley S. Case,1 and Hannah L. Buckley1, *iScience 26, 106028, February 17, 2023 ª 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Regenerative agriculture (RA) is gaining...
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We take nature as the best model for our ecosystem design. Informed by technology, science, traditional agricultural practices from around the globe, principles of permaculture and regenerative grazing as promoted byAllan Savoryandthe Savory Institutewe attempt to create a wholistic, financially...