Chapter 1 : Industrial Agriculture and Its Consequences Conventional industrial agriculture methods and practices dominate the American

Although no universally agreed-upon definition of regenerative agriculture exists, it generally promotes self-renewal and resiliency,

Global food consumption is driven primarily by two factors: global population increase, and the increase of the average standard of living.

Regenerative agriculture practices improve soil health through an increase in soil carbon content, improving or protecting soil biodiversity

Key elements in successful regenerative agriculture practices are: By promoting soil biology and organic matter and biodiversity

The transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture can be a daunting prospect, especially for small farmers.

Reduce/Eliminate Tilling Tillage has significant, and well known, downsides

Diversification of crops has several potential benefits:

Cover crops provide additional protection to the soil both dusing the growing season and outside it, while not interfering with the growth

Best results come with multi-species cover crops: using 5-10 different plant species as cover crops simultaneously.

Perennial cover crops provide a permanent covering protecting and nourishing the soil over the entire year.

Integration of farming and livestock can increase the profitability of regenerative farms .

Agroforestry is a long-standing (around 1300 years) practice of growing trees on farms for the benefit of the farm family (Sanchez, 1995).

Permaculture represents a land management approach applying methods developed from observing the underlying processes in flourishing natural

Chapter 15. Regenerative agriculture represents a set of methods and practices promising to be a large part of the solution to th