{"id":53513,"date":"2020-06-04T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53513"},"modified":"2020-06-04T19:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:15:58","slug":"regenerative-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53513","title":{"rendered":"Regenerative agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatezone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Regen-ag-1-800x373.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/climatezone.org\/2020\/05\/regenerative-agriculture\/\">Regenerative agriculture<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Living in a city or out in the suburbs one might not think too much about what it takes to produce the food we eat and why healthy agriculture is so important. \u00a0But conventional farming is unsustainable: substantial \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/12\/171215121055.htm\">amounts<\/a>\u00a0of topsoil are being lost by erosion. Arable land is being degraded and lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization has protested that \u201cwe must stop soil erosion to save our future\u201d. Conventional farming methods also cause significant emissions of greenhouse gases\u2013which contributes to climate change. A 2016 OECD report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/agriculture\/ministerial\/background\/notes\/4_background_note.pdf\">estimates<\/a>\u00a0that 17% of global emissions come directly from agriculture, while an additional 7 to 14% of emissions are caused by land-use practices such as clearing forests for farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture is the single\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14888386.2017.1351892?journalCode=tbid20\">greatest<\/a>\u00a0contributor to biodiversity loss and the largest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/opendata\/chart-globally-70-freshwater-used-agriculture\">consumer<\/a>\u00a0of increasingly limited freshwater resources\u2014consumption that will increase over the next few decades. Conventional farming methods have led to financial hardship for many farmers due to the costs of inputs such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Moreover, food production\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/16\/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-food-animals\">contributes<\/a>\u00a0significantly to diseases such as COVID 19. The future of agriculture lies in tackling these problems while at the same time increasing yields to feed a growing global population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Enhance and regenerate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regenerative agriculture (RA) is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandlandusecoalition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Regenerative-Agriculture-final.pdf\">farming<\/a>\u00a0which goes beyond just doing no harm to the environment\u2013like sustainable agriculture. It enhances and regenerates the natural environment. A good definition of RA from the consultancy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terra-genesis.com\/\">Terra Genesis International<\/a>\u00a0is: \u201ca system of farming principles and practices that increase biodiversity, enrich soils, restore watersheds, and enhance ecosystem services\u201d, and which helps \u201creverse current global trends of atmospheric accumulation of carbon, offers increased yields, resilience to climate instability, and higher health and vitality for farming and ranching communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regenerative agriculture Living in a city or out in the suburbs one might not think too much about what it takes to produce the food we eat and why healthy agriculture is so important. \u00a0But conventional farming is unsustainable: substantial \u00a0amounts\u00a0of topsoil are being lost by erosion. Arable land is being degraded and lost. 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