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Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming

Cropaia

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. What’s in It for Farmers?

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Op-Ed | Diving into the Deep End of Regenerative Agriculture

Food Tank

Initially, farmers and corporations alike wade into the shallow end, implementing relatively simple and inexpensive techniques such as cover cropping and minimal tillage to optimize for soil health and carbon sequestration. In the deep end, outcomes are sought to benefit the farmers and stewards of whole landscapes themselves.

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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

Poor soils can cut crop yields by up to 50 percent—which, if we’re not careful, could result in more soil being tilled to grow more crops, which degrades more soil, which pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate. We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Beans are good for people and the planet, so why aren’t we eating more of them?

Sustainable Food Trust

In our farming systems, they play a key role in regenerative crop rotations: breaking pest and weed cycles, fixing nitrogen in the soil and creating fertile ground for the crops that follow them. The most widely grown bean crop in the UK is the fava bean, with 188,000 hectares used for their cultivation in 2021.

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No-Till News: An Update on CAFF’s Biointensive No-Till Project 

Caff

Biointensive no-till farming systems endeavor to maximize on-farm biodiversity, minimize disturbance, maximize crop density, and sequester soil carbon. In the field, these principles can be implemented through practices such as intensive crop rotations, polycultures, maintaining continuous ground cover, and applying compost.

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EP 71 Sharing the Land – SoR Part Four

RR2CS

Located in Rogersville, New Brunswick, her farm Ferme Terre Partagee currently operates as a coop based on common values and objectives including peasant agroecology and food sovereignty. Fifth generation farmer, Rébeka Frazer-Chiasson believes strongly in the practices of regenerative agriculture.