Across the world, the momentum for regenerative farming is growing. Its core practices, like using compost and cover crops and reducing the use of agrochemicals, provide positive benefits for people and nature.
For the environment, regenerative agriculture practices can increase carbon storage in the soil and protect biodiversity. And for the people practicing it, they can improve yields and productivity, improve farmers’ livelihoods, and increase their resilience to climate change.
But who are these regenerative farming communities, what are their practices, and how is Rare helping them farm more regeneratively?
Regenerative Farming is a climate solution that needs behavior change
Modern farming practices, like overusing chemical fertilizers, degrade soils and water, expand the agricultural frontier, and generate high carbon emissions. These practices undermine ecological integrity and agricultural productivity and damage farmers’ livelihoods and prosperity long term.
Regenerative farming is a powerful climate change solution that can transform farmers’ relationships with the land. Rooted in behavioral change, its practices rely on farmers changing their agricultural techniques to adopt more sustainable methods.
Through Rare’s Lands for Life program, Rare uses the science of human behavior and design thinking to help smallholder farmers and their communities in Colombia shift to more regenerative, sustainable, and low-carbon agricultural and ranching practices.
What are regenerative farming practices?
