Agriculture & Farming, Carbon Farming, Design, Regenerative Business, Regenerative Principles, Regenerative Supply
White Paper: Levels of Regenerative Agriculture
September 13, 2016 - Agriculture & Farming, Carbon Farming, Design, Regenerative Business, Regenerative Principles, Regenerative Supply
The term “Regenerative Agriculture” has recently experienced a meteoric rise in public interest, through discussion and promotion by both corporate and non-profit entities. This explosion of excitement and engagement has great, positive eco-social potential for individuals, farms and businesses. However, some uses over-simplify, banalize, or fragment Regenerative Agriculture, instead of engaging with it as a whole and viable discipline.
To expand and uplift global conversation and action, Terra Genesis is glad to release our new White Paper, Levels of Regenerative Agriculture. We aim to support practitioners, organizations, decision-makers and investors to radically transform Earth’s agriculture as a step on the path to an ecosystemically vibrant, socially equitable, culturally diverse, and spiritually meaningful global system of regenerative potential. To download the paper, go to our learn page.
10 Comments
Silvia
thanks!
Jon Bishop
Amazing work. I’m impressed.
Mary Johnson
Love it. Perfect timing for our Grassroots Carbon Farming Solution to Climate Change work and sharing the amazing opportunity Masarang foundation has created with Regenerative Sugar Palm ethanol and a forest based alternative to destructive African Oil palm monocultures that has true benefits for local indigenous communities due to its totally green Village Hub value adding center http://www.masarang.org
Felipe Valencia Rendón
Muchas gracias
Christian Shearer
As I read through this paper, it sinks in deeper and deeper for me the beautiful role that people can play (and have in the past played) as part of nature. We have the opportunity to dance with the other species on this planet, co-creating thriving ecosystems that produce food, fuel, fiber, and all the other resources we need while also supporting the multitude of life that lives alongside us as part of the ecological system we share.
It is very beautiful to me that the returning to this inclusion in natural systems is exactly what is needed on this planet right now to solve a whole slew of problems, including the need for carbon to be sequestered out of the atmosphere, the need for healthy habitat for countless species, and the need for more nutrition in our food.
TGI’s work engaging the most forward leaning companies to catalyze the movement toward the rapid adoption of Regenerative Agriculture has been incredibly uplifting to me. As the conversation grows from the natural foods sector to cosmetics, pharmacopeia, and even into the building materials sector, it just keeps getting more and more interesting. The collaborations are building to make this a movement.
Greg Hart
Thanks soo much Greg and Ethan. This beautifully articulates what I have had as a “knowing” or broad and diverse learnings on Regenerative Agriculture. This paper provides the perfect framework to continue to evolve conversations on Regenerative Ag. I’d love to keep in contact with you guys, check out our website http://www.thefamilyfarm.co.nz
Richard Makim
This is a great initiative. A few of us have been urging a change from the limited usefulness of ” sustainable”, to regenerative, for nearly 20yrs now. And it takes a holistic outlook. It will take a change in the way science is carried out, and mindsets of those in food production. The old maxim , of ” opposition to change by those who profit from the old system, and only lukewarm support of those who may profit from the new” was never so true. The hidden costs of the old have to be researched and publicised, as well as the multiplier benefits of the new. Then consumer driven through education. This will be brand new thinking to a lot of your support, but it’s the only way to go.
Marianne Hill
What a beautiful document. The second sentence under ‘Self Assessment & Reflection’ is so very pertinent especially in my context of one of the most educated and affluent areas in the world, where how things ‘appear’ is paramount and the underlying truth has little relevance to these masses living in the life conditions that evolution has proved does not cause change. Until last spring when I visited Allan Savory during a ‘Leadership Camp’ I felt at odds with the world knowing how damaging judgement is, yet having no further point of reference or understanding. That time in Zimbabwe gave me that realisation and this paper brings a new dimension to the work Tony and I have been doing for years in spite of the consensus towards us. Thank you!
Rod Newton
This is the most hopeful monograph I’ve read in a long time! I appreciate the breadth and depth of perspective and am excited by the planetary solutions it embraces. Thank you!
Marco @d10sk0ur01
Love C.Shearer and Makim posts.
Today we have the numbers and still little but enough (to start doing this) comprehension of where we live who we are what we can do. A new science and approach will be taken, but to understand this we need to learn what was the political setting of the ancient societies we need to know what was the greek economy en pannes or the trade off theory by Rostow. I think the more we know the more our crowdsourcing will be able to get best ideas and reach a whole new diverse (not just one but dozens) of different new types of economies…
Let s call them econocities because they will be made inside the territories of mega cities that will be the new “nations”…
All this takes time because just a little part of us reads today, a smaller part uses internet knows how or is interested in this.
But in the meanwhile our revolutions should be propagating from our islands with out any extraction interest and distributing and connecting. This is not the only paper I want to read, but as I learnt when younger the best way to learn is getting into action, especially when we deal with ourselves, indeed with Nature.
Ciao!