Regenerative agriculture is an approach that aims to restore and improve soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem function. It focuses on building organic matter, reducing chemical inputs, enhancing biodiversity, and increasing resilience to mitigate climate change impacts.
https://timesagriculture.com/what-is-regenerative-agriculture-complete-overview/
Regenerative Organic agriculture has a long-standing specific definition promulgated by Bob Rodale starting in the 1980s. https://rodaleinstitute.org/why-organic/organic-basics/regenerative-organic-agriculture/
Since 2018, it is even possible for farms to get certified for following those practices.
The goal is to farm in a way that increases the biological equity of the land.
The regenerative agriculture concept was as Thomas alludes attributed to Robert Rodale. The core idea is to feed the soil and the plant will be fed optimally. In the regenerative agrcultural system agrichemical inputs are seen as symptomatic of a deleted system and not part of the resolution of the soil based issues. Most cultivated soils around the world have lost up to 90T of their oriningal organic matter. The regenerative system targets the elimination of agrichemical inputs combined with positive soil management practices to return the origninal soil fertility and productiviy. The analyogy Robert used is the soil should be seen as responding as an athlete which is trained that increases the capacity and is not used up. In the long term Farming System Trial in Kutztown Pennsylvania the transition to regeneratitve agriculture has shown the ability to equal and surpass the yield and quality under regenerative agriculture without the dependence on agrichemical inputs. This transformation which shown in 40 year Farming System Trial is the result following regenerative and its validity has been conclusively demonstrated under those condition. See the Rodale Institute website for complete explanations.
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