Our wardrobes are changing – for the better. Rapidly rotating collections and environmentally damaging production methods are making way for regenerative clothing, an approach to fashion that goes beyond sustainability to actively restore local ecosystems and communities. By leveraging regenerative agricultural practices, regenerative clothing contributes positively to the environment, offering a sustainable and ethical alternative to fast fashion that not only minimizes harm but actively promotes ecological regeneration. Regenerative agriculture is a farming practice that ..read more

Malawi — In the villages below Nyika Plateau in northern Malawi’s Rumphi district, coffee rules. It’s one of the most common bushes in the region, grown in back and front yards or in open fields where, elsewhere, maize would have been cultivated. Here, coffee shares space with banana and other fruit trees around fishponds and water holes, and scales up steep slopes among natural foliage. “Basically, the project was meant to integrate agroforestry into coffee production to enhance climate resilience and quality of coffee. Agroforestry has many benefits both to farmers as well as the ecosystem ..read more

The climate problem has been framed in a manner that emphasises temperature changes and carbon emissions, with renewable energy being positioned as the core solution. However, on taking a closer look at where all this energy is going—in food systems, construction, urban design, supply chains, and so on—tremendous inefficiencies can be observed in all these systems. This is accompanied by the realisation that the framing itself is limited. The post We Need to Frame the Climate Problem Differently appeared first on Regeneration International ..read more

In the early 2000s, the USDA developed a plan to require everyone who owned even one livestock or poultry animal to tag them with an electronic ID and report their movements. Large corporate operations could avoid the expense of such tags and simply use “group identification.” This regulation was originally slated to become mandatory in 2009. The post Taking Stock: Small Farmers Threatened by Electronic ID Plan appeared first on Regeneration International ..read more

A shocking new study found that nearly 200 chemicals linked to breast cancer are being used in food packaging, and, worse yet, dozens of the carcinogens can find their way into the body. “There is strong evidence that 76 known or potential breast carcinogens from food contact materials recently purchased all over the world can be found in people,” Jane Muncke, co-author of the study and managing director and chief scientific officer of the Food Packaging Forum, a nonprofit foundation based in Zurich, Switzerland, told CNN this week. The post Hundreds of Chemicals Linked to Breast Can ..read more

At the height of summer, chef Rob Rubba and his team at Oyster Oyster, a vegetable-first restaurant in Washington, D.C., are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. The post Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems appeared first on Regeneration International ..read more

The looming environmental dangers of massive deployment of digitalization and unleashing AI are being effectively ignored by the UN Summit of the Future taking place in New York on 22-23 September 2024 [1]. Giant technology companies are using the summit to position themselves as the tech saviours who will solve the world crises, with final versions of the text concealing the stark impact of their activities on the planet’s environment. The post Corporate Capture of the UN Summit of the Future appeared first on Regeneration International ..read more

WE, the more than 400 delegates, comprised of farmers, youth, women, entrepreneurs, researchers, CSOs, and policy actors, attending the Tripartite Event on African Agroecological Entrepreneurship, the Harare Seed and Food Festival, and the 5th Biennial Food System Celebration held in Harare, Zimbabwe from 11th to 14th September 2024, under the theme ‘Celebrating Our Healthy African Food Heritage’, hereby make this ‘Harare Declaration of Commitment and Call to Action’ for advancing agroecology and agroecological entrepreneurship in Africa. The post Harare Declaration of Commitment and Call to A ..read more

Have you ever thought about the value of soil? It covers 30% of the earth’s surface. It supports all of our ecosystems, from farms and grazing land to rainforests and the vast northern taiga. It contains more carbon than the earth’s atmosphere and all its plant biomass combined. The amount of fresh water in soil that’s available to grow plants is 100 times greater than all the world’s lakes, rivers, and wetlands put together. Soil connects the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. And 95% of the food we eat is dependent on it, making soil the single most important resource for a ..read more

There have been criticisms about regenerative grazing systems and their ability to sequester greenhouse gases to assist our climate change efforts. These criticisms stem from academics steeped in the current industrial agriculture systems. The post Regenerative Grazing appeared first on Regeneration International ..read more