Regenerative Agriculture
A Climate Solution is in the Soil
With the worsening crises in public health, biodiversity, and global warming, the future can look bleak. Fortunately, there’s a solution: regenerative food, farming, and land use.
Regenerative agriculture, when scaled up and combined with reforestation and other regenerative land use practices, has the potential to generate a net decrease in atmospheric carbon. How? By allowing photosynthesis to do its job. Carbon drawn from the atmosphere by living plants helps build soil organic matter when in partnership with healthy soil microbiology. When soil organic matter is disturbed or destroyed, the carbon is released back into the atmosphere where it contributes to global warming. Regenerative farming practices help preserve and build soil organic matter and soil health, so the carbon drawn down through photosynthesis remains safely sequestered in the soil.
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Read Current Issue — May 10, 2024
Newsletter #850: Mexico’s Right to Refuse GMOs
In This Issue:
- Using a Trade Agreement to Bully Mexico Into Importing Monsanto-Bayer’s GMO Corn
- Mexico’s Right to Refuse GMOs
- Experts Think Turmeric Can Help With Pain
- Pesticide Residues in Food Do Not Tell the Full Story on Hazards and the Importance of Organic
- Understanding and Fostering Resilience
- How One Woman’s Mission to ‘Rewild’ Urban Spaces Is Saving Native Bees
- Connecting the Dots to Grow the Organic Regenerative Movement
- Mexico’s New Food Rights Law
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- GMO Bio-Imperialism
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- “No Dig Cookbook” by Charles Dowding
- “The Great Regeneration: Ecological Agriculture, Open-Source Technology, and a Radical Vision of Hope” by Dorn Cox with Courtney White
- “Practical No-Till Farming: Organic Vegetable and Flower Growing” by Andrew Mefferd
- “From the Ground Up” by Deac Jones
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