How does sustainable regenerative agriculture improve soil health and ensure food security?
Regenerative agriculture encourages biodiversity and the services it offers, such as pollination, natural pest control, nutrient cycling, and soil health, by putting into practice techniques like cover cropping, agroforestry, crop diversification, habitat preservation, and lowering chemical inputs. Organic matter provides the food for soil organisms that regulate nutrient availability to plants and many other soil functions that maintain or improve land productivity and soil health is connected to sustainable soil productivity through balanced physical, chemical, and biological soil attributes. Sustainable agriculture practices include using local resources, reducing water usage, and using natural fertilizers to maintain soil quality and reduce erosion, protecting natural resources for future generations. Healthy soils produce healthy crops that in turn nourish people and animals. Indeed, soil quality is directly linked to food quality and quantity. Soils supply the essential nutrients, water, oxygen and root support that our food-producing plants need to grow and flourish. Sustainable agriculture and food systems such as organic agriculture and agro-ecology improve food security, eradicate hunger and are economically viable, while conserving land, water, plant and animal genetic resources, biodiversity and ecosystems and enhancing resilience to climate change and natural disasters. Increasing soil carbon content and better integration between crop and livestock production, and increased incorporation of trees and wild vegetation and reduction of direct and indirect greenhouse-gas emissions of livestock production. Efficient land use and healthy soils are important for food security. Integrated land and water management practices improve agricultural production and enhance soil productivity and its resilience against desertification and other impacts of climate change and variability.The ultimate objective of agricultural development is to ensure food security. Food security means that food is produced to feed the people. All people have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and live healthy lives.
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