Land and food
Regenerative agriculture case studies and the story of Laureano
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.
Water
The restoration of Lake Fundudzi
ReStory narrator: Ahmed Khan Gully head erosion worked through the system creating a large deep gully for 4.5 km canalising
Biodiversity, nature, climate
Dung beetles – indicators of biodiversity
Apart from the obvious global challenges such as climate change and ensuring future food security in a rapidly changing environment, decreasing global biodiversity is also a very serious challenge.
Human health and relationships
The story of Moolmanshoek – return to Eden
ReStory narrator: Willie Nel Moolmanshoek is a private game reserve consisting of 3 300ha. It is a National Heritage Site
Urban renewal
Greening of urban areas: restoring a building site to bring nature back
It is indeed up to each one of us to play a part in restoring and conserving the precious heritage of our natural veld and soil. And it is not impossible and difficult to make it a lifestyle. It is richly rewarding.
Economic
Restoration of the land and the people in Vanwyksdorp
The community of Vanwyksdorp, a little agricultural village in the heart of the arid Little Karoo, was stuck in a status quo of depopulation of rural agriculture, unemployment, poverty and helplessness. Vanwyksdorp has a good school but the situation was exacerbated by the annual exodus of school leavers, full of knowledge and expectations, only to find a world of closed doors and very few or no opportunities.
Technology
Thicket restoration plot explorer
ReStory narrator: Anthony Mills The South African government has funded the restoration of more than ten thousand hectares of degraded