What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture can help us stop climate change. It can also help us produce more nutritious food, more resilient crops, and less wasted water. Too good to be true? Watch this video to discover what is regenerative agriculture and why it’s so important.
EIT Food is helping farmers and businesses across Europe to transition to regenerative agriculture. To learn more about what we’re doing and how you can join the regenerative agriculture revolution, visit www.eitfood.eu/regenerativeagriculture.
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Script:
It is no secret that we are running out of time to protect our planet.
For millennia, we lived in harmony with nature. But modern agriculture is destroying the very habitat we depend on.
Intensive farming releases 30% of all greenhouse gases and erodes 24 billion tonnes of topsoil every year. That is an area the size of Greece!
If this goes on, we may have just sixty harvests left. But what if the solution lay right beneath our feet?
Regenerative Agriculture restores the natural rhythm of our ecosystem, reviving landscapes for generations to come. The secret lies in the soil.
Unlike depleted soils, healthy, organic topsoil retains water, absorbs nutrients, and stores carbon.
The idea is simple - just five key principles:
1. Do Not Disturb
Firstly, instead of tilling the soil, we leave it in peace - keeping carbon in the ground--- and helping microbes to thrive.
2. Cover up
We keep the ground covered with plants throughout the year to help us protect and build healthy soils.
3. No chemicals, please
Pesticides and fertilisers can kill important microbes and make crops vulnerable to disease. We lose the chemicals and let nature regulate itself.
4. Boost biodiversity
We create a rich ecosystem of many plants and animals living alongside one another, just as nature intended.
5. Listen to the land
And finally, regenerative agriculture looks different in different places and it’s important that we always listen to the land.
By working with nature, we can produce more nutritious food, more resilient crops, and less wasted water.
What is more, we could stop or even reverse climate change. If the world’s soils stored just 0.4% more carbon every year, it could offset all human C02 emissions.
Regenerative Agriculture gives us the chance to improve food quality, protect farmers’ livelihoods, and safeguard the land we depend on.
It is a profitable, sustainable system that makes sense for farmers and food-lovers alike.
So, come and join the regenerative agriculture revolution.
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Thanks to
Matteo Mazzola
Paola Archetti and family
Andrea Fasolo
Federico San Bonifacio
Manuel Urquiza
Alfonso Chico de Guzman
Yanniek Schoonhoven
Jose Luis Garcia
Miguel Angel Llorente
Tomasso Gizzi
Created by
Storytravelers
Caspar Daniël Diederik | film and edit
Nacho Spinola | additional film
Silvan Bouman | motion graphics
Joseph Gridley | narrator
Flo Robertson | Copywriting

[@carralumsden8853]

THIS. This is what is required. Whilst we're not on a brink. Things do need to be implemented asap. This has been my brothers and I's slow and steady end goal for 20years. En mass scale in another country we have chosen. Just pulling myself through some frustrations with processes and shall be there asap, ready to prep the land and wait for harvest returns. Thank you for sharing Peace and Blissings

[@STORYTRAVELERS]

Great having been able to create this together with the EIT team

[@robertabwono5381]

Working on regenerative model farm would like to partners in this journey of transforming the way we Farm

[@RizoSfera]

Fantastici! Teniamo viva questa rivoluzione!!

[@tellexxx]

Let's do it!

[@samuelprandina]

Wonderful!!!

[@stefangernert3499]

Great video, thank you!

[@ChMuneebJutt]

Respected Sir. Great

[@carboneg]

Great video!! We are happy to be a part of this EU program and the change itself, tackling the global challenge from Prague, but focusing on global market.

[@budahelyidalma5666]

❤

[@anad5392]

Un video fantástico: certero, claro y emocionante. La solución está bajo nuestros pies.. y en nuestras manos! ¿Vamos a aceptar la tarea y la responsabilidad...?

[@rolanddey6025]

Very smolt explained the concept of the process of RA.

[@Kararch]

Fungi are the answer

[@rubiccube8953]

I’ve been adding a layer of wood chips to my allotment paths and for many crops . Especially asparagus , fruit trees , fruit bushes and strawberries every year for 12 years. Plants grow faster , bigger and taste better.

[@criminologistsreflection367]

How canni join?

[@anad5392]

There are many trainings and groups in many countries! One great international resource is "Kiss The Ground", and if you are a farmer in Southern Europe, I recommend the EIT Food training & advisory programme. Here is the info about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5_MZmSim6mdkMU

[@limathecat]

The future... Hopefully

[@dmitrimikrioukov5935]

What goes out of the soil needs to get returned. So fertilise fields with sewer waste, including the detergents flushed down in it? Humanity needs to returned to the pure-industrial state, which is unrealistic.

[@massimoamodeo2455]

I want to know about regenerative agriculture, not being lectured upon

[@SergioGarcia-eg6yv]

My

[@ibnumubarokeib]

we cant protect our planet.. even all of our planet full of tree..