{"id":1648,"date":"2022-07-25T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/?page_id=1648"},"modified":"2022-07-26T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:19:20","slug":"why-regenerative-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/?page_id=1648","title":{"rendered":"Why Regenerative Agriculture?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cIf you\u2019ve never heard about the amazing potential of regenerative agriculture and land use practices to naturally sequester a critical mass of CO2<\/sub> in the soil and forests, you\u2019re not alone. One of the best-kept secrets in the world today is that the solution to global warming and the climate crisis (as well as poverty and deteriorating public health) lies right under our feet, and at the end of our knives and forks.\u201d<\/p>

-Ronnie Cummins, Regeneration International Steering Committee Member<\/em><\/p>

The loss of the world\u2019s fertile soil and biodiversity, along with the loss of indigenous seeds and knowledge, pose a mortal threat to our future survival.\u00a0According to soil scientists, at current rates of soil destruction (i.e. decarbonization, erosion, desertification, chemical pollution), within 50 years we will not only suffer serious damage to public health due to a qualitatively degraded food supply characterized by diminished nutrition and loss of important trace minerals, but we will literally no longer have enough arable topsoil to feed ourselves.\u00a0Without protecting and regenerating the soil on our 4 billion acres of cultivated farmland, 8 billion acres of pastureland, and 10 billion acres of forest land, it will be impossible to feed the world, keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, or halt the loss of biodiversity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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HOW DOES IT WORK?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The key to regenerative agriculture is that it not only \u201cdoes no harm\u201d to the land but actually improves it, using technologies that regenerate and revitalize the soil and the environment. Regenerative agriculture leads to healthy soil, capable of producing high quality, nutrient dense food while simultaneously improving, rather than degrading land, and ultimately leading to productive farms and healthy communities and economies. It is a dynamic and holistic, incorporating permaculture and organic farming practices, including conservation tillage, cover crops, crop rotation, composting, mobile animal shelters and pasture cropping, to increase food production, farmers\u2019 income and especially, topsoil.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you\u2019ve never heard about the amazing potential of regenerative agriculture and land use practices to naturally sequester a critical mass of CO2 in the soil and forests, you\u2019re not alone. One of the best-kept secrets in the world today is that the solution to global warming and the climate crisis (as well as poverty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1648\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeds-project.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}