regenerative agriculture

Wisdom of the Ages

December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 admin farming, regenerative agriculture

Two weeks ago the man who some describe as a founding father of Regenerative Agriculture was in South Africa giving a number of Master Classes. It was a privilege to sit for two days and listen to a man who has a global following but doesn’t want to be guru; who has enormous experience but admits he doesn’t know all the answers; who doesn’t believe that his way is the only way, but who does want to share his experience; who shared his belief of how farming should be a marriage with nature, approached as one approaches a responsive lover, not as a warrior engages with an enemy.

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Regenerative agriculture case studies and the story of Laureano

May 7, 2021December 15, 2021 admin conservation agriculture, dispersed shade, gliricidia, regenerative agriculture, restoration, sustainability

In order to better understand the impact of what has been happening among the more than 15 million smallholder farmers using “regenerative agriculture” (RA) across the developing world, let’s first look at the impact it has had on a single, more or less average farmer, among them. In the photo above, Laureano is showing us the nature and results of his switch to RA. Why did Laureano begin practicing RA? Frankly, it’s because of the impressive list of benefits. One of the many beauties of RA is that by the very act of benefiting the individual farmer in multitudinous ways, it also benefits all of humankind in multitudinous ways. Contrary to what so often happens in human life, there is no contradiction in RA between the individual welfare of the producer and the general welfare of humankind.

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A letter to the President in the times of the Corona Virus

April 21, 2020January 15, 2021 admin Corona virus, food security, hope, pandemic, regenerative agriculture, response, restoration, water

A letter to the President from Prof. James Blignaut. In the times of the Corona Virus we need to see the light that Regenerative Agriculture provides.

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Restoring a dream: the journey of a smallholder into regenerative farming – Part 1

March 2, 2020January 15, 2021 admin conservation agriculture, Lesotho, maize, non-GM, regenerative agriculture, smallholder, soya

ReStory narrator: Jaap Knot, Ladybrand I am an agriculturist facilitating the implementation of Conservation Agriculture (CA). It is relatively easy

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Breeding resilience amongst all odds

December 13, 2019January 15, 2021 admin arid, Baviaanskloof, degraded, ostrich, regenerative agriculture, restoration, rosemary, spekboom

I have decided that the degradation that took place will not determine my future. The sun is setting on a degraded past and rising to a restorative future. We are the generation that must act; I acted on my farm. This is was able to do with the help of a large number of people, including the Subtropical Thicket Restoration Programme, the restoration unit of Rhodes University, Living Lands, and the Government of South Africa.

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