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Regeneration International (RI) is thrilled to host the third People’s Food Summit, World Food Day, October 16, 2023

This will be the third time Regeneration International will host the People’s Food Summit. This unique event is a major 24-hour event celebration of World Food Day, October 16, 2023, featuring exciting speakers from every region of our planet.

The 2021 and 2022 events were spectacularly successful, with over 500,000 people, each time, from all regions of our world, tuning in to watch and listen to our numerous speakers and their essential topics.

In 2022, we promoted videos that we regarded as highlights of each region and reached another 700,000 views, bringing the total views to 1,200,000. Because we reached so many people, this event had a very high impact and will continue connect people through regeneration and food sovereignty.

The People’s Food Summit enhances the connectedness of global work amongst numerous like-minded organizations. We seek to engage hundreds of thousands by exchanging information and sharing inspiring stories.

Our Mission:

1. Information Exchange

2. Creating connections where different groups can continue working together afterwards

3. Stimulating a citizen-led research and storytelling journey

4. Starting a partnership where RI continues to enable the scale-up of projects

5. Increasing the reach of this vital information to hundreds of thousands of people

It is the only 24-hour global, participatory, virtual summit starting in Oceania and moving westwards through the time zones of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America. 
The People’s Food Summit is a truly participatory summit that empowers most of the world’s food producers: the family farmers, pastoralists, and foresters who produce 70% of our food. Regenerative organic agriculture, agroecology, and climate change are featured in the summit.

We intend to expand this format for the 2023 summits and continue to present the proven, farmer-based, real-world examples that are the future of our food and farming systems. These include agroecology, organic and regenerative farming, permaculture, agroforestry, holistically managed grazing, and many other systems.



Join us and spread the word about the Peoples Food Summit!

From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate.

At once an intimate, multi-generational memoir and a microcosm of American agriculture at large, A BOLD RETURN TO GIVING A DAMN offers a pathway back to producing food the right way. At a time when food supply chains are straining, climate-induced catastrophes are playing havoc with harvests, and concern around who owns America’s farmland are more prescient than ever, Will Harris urges us to consider where the food we eat really comes from, and to re-connect to the places and people who raise what we eat each day.

With keen storytelling, a good dose of irreverence, and an unflinching willingness to speak truth to power, Harris shows us why it’s never been more important to know your farmer than now.

An “organic icon” of the Real Food movement, he is one of the very first people to bring grass-fed and humanely raised meat to the mainstream. Harris is one of the most outspoken critics of industrialized, centralized, and commoditized agriculture and is one of the most recognized leaders in the regenerative and resilient agriculture space.

Ruth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, says, “If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book. Smart, funny and compulsively readable, it explains everything you need to know about why our food is so bad and what we can do to fix it.” 

You can order Will’s book here!

Rachel Dixon writes for The Guardian:

“Friluftsliv is not a specific activity. Hiking in the forest, kayaking along the fjords and skiing in the mountains could all be part of it, but so could picking cloudberries or simply sitting in the woods. “It is our goal to include everyone in friluftsliv, including people with disabilities and psychological challenges and those on low incomes,” says Lier. I have opted for a hike with Stine Schultz Heireng, the general secretary of the Norwegian Guide and Scout Association.

An astonishingly high percentage of Norwegians report spending time outdoors. A survey in June by the market research company Kantar TNS found that 83% are interested in friluftsliv, 77% spend time in nature on a weekly basis and 25% do so most days. In its latest living conditions survey, from 2021, the country’s official statistics office, Statistics Norway, found that 25% of Norwegians had stayed outside overnight in the past year. “Even other Nordic countries say Norwegians are out in nature more than they are,” says Lier. Schultz Heireng spent a year sleeping outside once a week. She left the house after her two children were in bed (her husband took them to school in the morning), hiked, slept in her hammock or tent, had breakfast in the forest and went straight to work. She still does so regularly.”

Read more about how Norwegians love of nature contributes to their well being: The Norwegian Secret: How Friluftsliv Boosts Health and Happiness

For the third year, Regeneration International is organizing the International People’s Food Summit. Join us to hear from an extraordinary compilation of farmers, scientists, activists, researchers and more, from around the globe; people sharing farming success stories of their own, or inspiring projects they are heading up in their communities.

There is so much to learn from agroecolgists around the world and this summit is an engaging, human and straightforward way to learn about methods, processes and timelines for positive outcomes in growing food, tending livestock, regenerating the soil and healing communities and the earth.

The speakers featured at the People’s Food Summit have spent a considerable amount of time and effort to put these presentations together with the goal of sharing this valuable knowledge.

Thanks to our widespread team of amazing coordinators, each region will be self-organized, to enable them to present the messages and issues that are most important to their environment.

It requires a lot of organizing work to provide a platform, so we hope you will be able to join us to watch some of these compelling stories.

We are offering this summit for free to make it accessible to all, we ask that if you are able, you will consider donating so we can continue organizing events like this and give more people an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences about how they are farming to survive, heal and thrive, while connecting the world through regeneration and food sovereignty.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Regeneration International, our international sister organization

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Thank you to our 300,000 email subscribers and two million social media followers (OCA, Millions Against Monsanto, Regeneration International, Via Organica) who forward and share our information with friends and contacts.

Ben Adlin writes:

“We reviewed the modified hemp plant to determine whether it posed an increased plant pest risk as compared to cultivated hemp,” USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said in a notice last week. “APHIS found this modified hemp is unlikely to pose an increased plant pest risk compared to other cultivated hemp.”

In its request for the USDA review, Growing Together Research said the changes are intended to make the engineered plants free of THC and CBC and also boost resistance to the herbicide bialaphos. It says genes in the new hemp plants came from multiple donor organisms, including plants, bacteria, a virus and at least one artificial sequence.

The company said in the request that it believes the intended resistance to the herbicide “is not expected to result in any other material changes to metabolism, physiology or development of the plant.”

In its response to Growing Together Research, USDA determined that the engineered hemp variant is “not subject to the regulations under 7 CFR part 340,” which regulates the movement of genetically modified organisms.”

Read More: USDA Says Genetically Modified Hemp Plant ‘May Be Safely Grown And Bred’ In The United States

Environmental Health News reports:

OK, let’s start with the bad news: a new report from Mamavation found evidence of PFAS chemicals in food packaging including a McDonald’s filet-o-fish carton, a Starbucks’ sandwich wrapper and a KFC bucket of fried chicken.

That’s not good. But many of these fast-food and fast-casual restaurants have announced plans to ban the “forever chemicals” and for some — Taco Bell, Wendy’s, Sweetgreen and others — it seems to be working. In total 35% of 81 pieces of fast-food packaging showed detectable levels of organic fluorine, an indicator of the group of chemicals known as PFAS, according to a new report from Mamavation.

EHN.org partially funded the testing and Pete Myers, chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, which publishes Environmental Health News, reviewed the findings.

The report builds on previous fast-food packaging testing and EHN.org and Mamavation’s growing library of consumer products tested for evidence of PFAS, including products such as contact lenses, pasta and tomato sauces, sports bras, tampons, dental floss, electrolytes and butter wrappers.

It also comes on the heels of an EHN.org investigation, What we know about PFAS in our food, that found due to inadequate testing and a lack of regulation, we’re all eating PFAS.



Read more: Burgers and Fries with a Side of PFAS

Take Action! Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Toxic PFAS

“Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late.’


In COMMON GROUND, celebrities Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Donald Glover, Rosario Dawson, and Ian Somerhalder explore how many of the problems that ail humans — from cancer to climate change — may be connected to the state of the world’s soil. Independent farmers who’ve changed their methods to implement practices using indigenous knowledge  are showing how people can potentially save the planet just by changing how we grow food.

Grow the Movement: Share the Film: Here’s the trailer to learn more. #CommonGroundMovie

You can purchase tickets to Common Ground Super events here.

Chelsea Green Publishing writes:

“For those who question the fertilizing power of tree leaves, I would share a couple of anecdotes. (read Will Bonsall’s anecdotes in the link below) Although I have many acres of hardwood forest where I could collect my own leaves, I usually prefer to haul them from the town of Farmington, 8 miles (12.9 km) away. I’m doing the people of Farmington a favour by hauling theirs away, plus they’re already raked into piles, relatively free of twigs and branches.

A well-powered chipper/shredder is the best way to shred leaves, but it is not the only way. My father used to pile his leaves up by the garage door and run through the pile repeatedly with his push power mower, stirring it up between passes. Cousin Tom makes his into a long, very deep pile (3 feet, or 0.9 m) and wades through it repeatedly with his rototiller, regathering it as it spreads out.

And of course, we all know the hands-down most efficient way of shredding leaves: You gather them all into a huge pile in the middle of the lawn and tell your kids and all the neighbour kids: “Stay out of this.” Within hours the pile will be reduced to molecules. (To accelerate the process you could hang a used car tire from an overhead limb.)”




Read more about Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening here

Christina Manian RDN writes for Better Homes and Gardens:

“You probably weren’t aware that much of the honey found on grocery store shelves is actually fake—in some cases, it contains little to no actual honey. In fact, honey is one of the most faked foods found in our food supply today. Here’s why, and how it’s affecting those who produce real honey—plus what it means for all the supposed health benefits of the so-called superfood.

Honey can be adulterated in many ways—from treating it with heat to filtering it to diluting it with modified additives like sugar or syrup. It can be harvested too early as plant nectar, doctored up, and sold falsely as the end product, honey. It can even be labeled as local when it’s really sourced internationally.

While the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has created a grading system for honey to let consumers know the quality of the product they’re buying, there is no enforcement system in place, so producers can put just about whatever they like on the bottle.”

Read on to learn how to steer clear of the fake stuff

Know your bee keepers! Local Honey Finder


Good news! Consumers are voting with their forks and seeing changes in the marketplace. 

Robert Arnason writes for The Western Producer:

“Glyphosate is registered for pre-harvest weed control in many Canadian crops. But with public and food industry attention on the herbicide, applying it to a crop in August is still a major market risk for farmers and Canada’s grain trade.

All three speakers for the webinar (hosted by Keep It Clean) mentioned glyphosate, which some farmers use late in the growing season to control weeds. Or possibly to dry down their crop.
“If you are using it as a desiccant to dry down that crop — please stop. That’s not how it’s supposed to be used,” Bartley said.

Federal regulators may believe glyphosate residues are not a concern, but grain buyers and food companies must keep their customers happy.

That’s why dozens of food and ingredient companies have adopted the “Glyphosate Residue Free” label, created by an organization called the Detox Project.”

Read more: Push for ‘Glyphosate-Free’ Causes Market Risks

Check out Glyphosate Residue Free and Gold Standard Detox Certification and find clean products

Read about the “Association between glyphosate exposure and biomarkers indicative of neurological damage”

Ten Years in Defense of the Milpa, Native Corns and Mexican Biodiversity

What Does Organic Mean? Linley Dixon of the Real Organic Project

The New Colonialist Food Economy

Study: Researchers Found Just 3,867 Steps Daily was Enough to Lower Risk of Death

How Does Climate Change Threaten Your Neighborhood? A New Map Has the Details

The Seed Guardians of Peru Trying To Save the Potato

Bioengineers Are Using Fat Made From Pig Cells To Make Lab-Grown Meat Taste More Appealing

Hygiene Habits That Can Do More Harm Than Good

‘Fire Grazers’ Leasing Out Hundreds of Goats to Battle California Wildfires: ‘They Have the Right Mouths’

Wegovy, Other Weight-Loss Drugs Scrutinized Over Reports of Suicidal Thoughts

Revolutionary Paint Reduces the Energy Used for Heating and Cooling Homes by 36 Percent

A Benefit Of Eating Eggs That Might Surprise You

Glycine Reverses Aging in Cells