Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: A Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming - FIC

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Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: A Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming

Regenerative organic agriculture for soil-carbon sequestration is tried and true: Humans have long farmed in that fashion, and there is nothing experimental about it. What is new is the scientific verification of regenerative agricultural practices. Excess carbon in the atmosphere is surely toxic to life, but we are, after all, carbon-based life forms, and returning stable carbon to the soil is a tonic that can support ecological abundance.

  • Taken together, the wealth of scientific support for regenerative agriculture has demonstrated that these practices can comfortably feed the growing human population while repairing our damaged ecosystem:
  • If management of all current cropland shifted to reflect the regenerative model as practiced at the research sites included in the white paper, we could potentially sequester more than 40% of annual emissions.
  • If all global pasture was managed using a regenerative model, an additional 71% could be sequestered.

Even if modest assumptions about soil's carbon sequestration potential are made, regenerative agriculture can easily keep annual emissions to within a desirable range.

Author
Rodale Institute
Publisher
Kutztown, PA: Rodale Institute
Page Numbers
25
Publication Date
April 17, 2015
Publication Type
Reports and Guides
State
National
Keywords
Environmental Benefits, Farming Practices, Why Save Farmland

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