Regeneration International

= transforming degenerative practices into regenerative ones

URL = http://regenerationinternational.org/

Description

"Our work, supported by the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and other founding organizations, is focused on the following:

• Engage the global scientific, agricultural, and activist communities in a narrative about the relationships between healthy soils, food and the climate.

• Identify, support and promote leading experts and success stories focused on the science and best practices that support regenerative organic agriculture as a viable means to reverse global warming through carbon sequestration.

• Aggregate, translate and disseminate the latest research linking the climate, food, natural health, environment, and economic justice movements to food and farming, and best practices for adapting regenerative techniques to different climates and cultures.

• Unify the global grassroots through a diversity of messages and campaigns to appeal to different segments of the global body politic, including consumers and environmentalists.

• Collaborate with universities and NGOs to train farmers in organic regenerative farming and land management techniques.

• Mobilize consumers, farmers, and environmentalists to pressure policymakers to create policies that advance organic regenerative farming and land management practices."

(http://regenerationinternational.org/about/)

Discussion

"A growing number of climate, food, environment, health and justice advocates are embracing and promoting a world-changing concept: regeneration.

Global food and farming can be divided into two categories: regenerative and degenerative.

Degenerative refers to systems that are toxic chemical-intensive, monoculture-based industrial agriculture systems that destabilize the climate, and degrade soil, water, biodiversity, health and local economies.

Regenerative practices are based on sound ecological principles that rejuvenate the soil, grasslands and forests; replenish water; promote food sovereignty; and restore public health and prosperity—all while cooling the planet by drawing down billions of tons of excess carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in the soil where it belongs.

There is a need for a global paradigm shift from degenerative to regenerative. The goal of The Regeneration Hub is to map and connect active regenerative food, farming and land use projects around the world to empower and inspire farmers, entrepreneurs, scientists, businesses, activists, educators, journalists, investors, policymakers and consumers to create a global paradigm shift from degenerative to regenerative." (http://regenerationinternational.org/the-regeneration-hub)