{"id":61018,"date":"2022-07-07T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/?p=61018"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:07:06","slug":"regenerative-agriculture-opportunity-or-threat-to-organic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/en\/2022\/07\/07\/regenerative-agriculture-opportunity-or-threat-to-organic\/","title":{"rendered":"Regenerative agriculture: Opportunity, or threat to organic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For decades, the term \u2018regenerative agriculture<\/strong>\u2019 existed largely in the margins of the sustainable food debate. But in the last few years it has been catapulted to the heart of that debate.
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Instrumental in the transition to sustainability<\/h2>\n

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) say it will be instrumental in the transition to sustainable food and farming, while EASAC, Europe\u2019s independent science advisory group, believes it is capable of \u201cmassive transformation\u201d. Most striking of all is the way regenerative approaches are being so enthusiastically embraced by multinational food corporations and agri-industry giants like Unilever, Danone, Nestl\u00e9 and Cargill.<\/p>\n

But what does the rapid ascendancy of regenerative agriculture mean for organic farming? Intuitively, it feels that it ought to be to organic\u2019s advantage \u2013 especially since many consider organic itself to be intrinsically regenerative. It\u2019s true also that parts of the organic community are already firmly on board with regenerative thinking, through schemes such as Regenerative Organic Certified in the US. However, some prominent organic thinkers are much more cautious, and warn against uncritically embracing a term which they fear could complicate organic messaging and create confusion in the minds of consumers. Others warn that regenerative agriculture is being rapidly re-moulded to suit the priorities of multinational businesses and amounts to a form of greenwashing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So, is the rise of regenerative agriculture an opportunity for organic, or could it even present a threat? Let\u2019s hear some of the arguments.<\/p>\n

What is regenerative agriculture?<\/h3>\n

But first, what exactly is regenerative agriculture? In the broadest sense, it is a system of farming that aims to improve the resources its uses rather than deplete or destroy them by placing soil health at the heart of farming practices<\/strong>. Its proponents claim it produces low, even net positive, environmental and social impacts. It is also promoted for its capacity to sequester carbon and boost biodiversity. Techniques used in regenerative agriculture include crop rotation, use of cover crops, reduced tillage and compost application \u2013 practices, some would point out, that are rooted in organic.<\/p>\n

Regenerative agriculture is a system of farming that aims to improve the resources its uses rather than deplete or destroy them by placing soil health at the heart of farming practices<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The term regenerative agriculture dates back to the early 1980s, when it began to be used by the Rodale Institute<\/strong> in the US. The pioneering organic body adopted the term as a direct reaction to the popularising of the word \u2018sustainability\u2019 in environment circles, which it said did not present \u201ca challenging enough goal\u201d. Rodale formed the Regenerative Agriculture Association and published several books on the theme. Fast-forward to the early 2000s and we see the Institute focusing on regenerative agriculture\u2019s potential for climate change mitigation. In a paper published in 2014, Rodale asserted that “we could sequester more than 100% of current annual CO2 emissions with a switch to common and inexpensive organic management practices, which we term ‘regenerative organic agriculture\u201d. It was also at around this time that other prominent thinkers in this area \u2013 Eric Toensmeier, Allan Savory, Abe Collins among them \u2013 were gaining international attention for highlighting regenerative agriculture\u2019s potential to deliver game-changing climate change mitigation.<\/p>\n

In the last few years the momentum behind the regenerative agriculture movement has accelerated. As well as feeding through at the political and policy levels, regenerative ideas are being adopted \u2013 and acted on \u2013 by some of the world\u2019s leading food businesses. Nestl\u00e9, Cargill, McDonald\u2019s, PepsiCo, Danone and Unilever are among the major corporates who have now committed to sourcing a proportion of production using regenerative approaches.<\/p>\n

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Ecosystem of good<\/h4>\n

US food giant General Mills (with revenues of $17 billion) has pledged to convert a million acres of farmland to regenerative systems by 2030, to create an \u201cecosystem of good\u201d intended to boost biodiversity, build farmer economic resilience and improve soil health and herd-wellbeing. Pointedly, the company has said that it \u201ccannot afford to wait for organic \u2013 which accounts for just 1% of farmland in the US \u2013 to catch up\u201d.<\/p>\n

Major retailers are also getting on board. In the US, Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market has identified regenerative agriculture as its number one food trend for 2022. Mass channel supermarket chain Target meanwhile promises what it calls a \u201cregenerative future\u201d, to be realised throughout its Target Forward sustainability strategy. In the UK, upscale grocery retailer Waitrose (owner of Prince Charles\u2019s Duchy Organic brand) says it will use its mixed arable and livestock Leckford Estate farm as a testbed for regenerative farming practices, using the insights to help the business meet its net zero emissions target.<\/p>\n

Since many of these companies operate at a giant scale, there is potential for them here to make an enormous contribution in the transition to sustainable farming practices. Environment groups are aware of this, and many campaigners who criticise corporations for bad practices are reluctant to attack them when they try to improve them. Nonetheless there remains a big, and as yet unresolved, problem with regenerative agriculture: There is no universally agreed definition of what it is. So, in practice, regenerative agriculture can \u2013 and does \u2013 mean very different things to different people. And that makes it ripe for misappropriation.<\/p>\n

Business as usual?<\/h4>\n

One of the most fiercely debated aspects of regenerative agriculture is the use of pesticides and chemical fertiliser. While in theory there is an ambition<\/em> within the regenerative movement to reduce the use of chemical inputs, the reality is that conventional farmers using a regenerative, no-till approach often rely heavily on herbicides to manage weeds. Friends of the Earth (FOE) says it wants to see the debate on this issue amplified. The group recently published a report summarising the science around how pesticides can damage the microbial life that drives carbon sequestration. Talking to the magazine Civil Eats<\/em>, Kendra Klein<\/strong>, a senior staff scientist with FOE US, said: \u201cPesticides are rarely mentioned in many regenerative agriculture circles. We want to elevate the importance of pesticide reduction \u2026 especially now that regenerative agriculture is reaching the policy sphere.\u201d She warns there is a real danger of regenerative being co-opted by the pesticide industry, adding that companies like Bayer (owner of Monsanto) and Syngenta are \u201cusing the same type of (regenerative) language\u201d to provide \u201ccover for continuing a very resource-intensive, energy- and greenhouse gas-intensive form of agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, a more more pragmatic view has been emerging<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FOE also wants to show that truly regenerative agriculture is about much more than carbon sequestration, an important point to make as regenerative agriculture and \u2018carbon farming\u2019 are increasingly seen as interchangeable terms.<\/p>\n

The changing debate<\/h4>\n

Attitudes to regenerative agriculture within the organic sector vary widely. Dutch organic commentator, Ronald Van Marlen<\/strong>, is outspoken on the issue. He believes regenerative agriculture has already been comprehensively hijacked by agri-industry interests, and that they have done it to create \u201ca new marketing narrative that keeps them in the driving seat\u201d. He says it is naive for the organic sector to be talking about building bridges with food and chemical industry multinationals. \u201cYou hear this argument that \u2018we\u2019re better together\u2019. But we are not. We don\u2019t share the same values or the same principles\u201d.<\/p>\n

But recently, a more more pragmatic view has been emerging<\/strong>. At a discussion last year organised by the Soil Association, panelists were asked about how the organic movement should respond to the popularity of regenerative thinking. Was it already influencing consumer purchasing decisions, and was there a risk it might displace organic? Martin Sawyer<\/strong>, CEO of Soil Association Certification, said regenerative was \u201cclearly part of the new language that is emerging\u201d. He said definitions of regenerative were not always clear (or the same), creating room for confusion, adding that the Soil Association wanted to help \u201chave a better informed discussion around the whole agroecology and regenerative space and give it some shape\u201d. Clare McDermott<\/strong>, Soil Association business development director, said regenerative agriculture presented both a challenge and an opportunity for organic. She added: \u201cConsumers are looking for shortcuts. The only legally certified system \u2013 in terms of agroecology and regenerative approaches \u2013 is organic. Organic is regenerative. So it\u2019s up to us to show people how organic delivers regenerative outcomes\u201d.<\/p>\n

IFOAM World Board Member, Paul Holmbeck<\/strong>, says it is important to make the distinction between genuinely regenerative approaches, and what is essentially a marketing distraction. He says: \u201cwhile I applaud any improvements in industrial farming, use of regenerative in the repackaging of industrial agriculture is getting out of hand. Regenerative has huge momentum globally, even if there is no definition of what it is. Marketing departments are fully mobilised, promising sustainability based on self selected actions on farms where there are typically little or no guidelines or restrictions on negative practices. It’s hard to watch the pioneers and innovators in regenerative farming have their tireless efforts co-opted by chemical and agri-industry interests remaking their image.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ROC scheme is based on a holistic, three-pillar approach \u2013 soil health, animal welfare and social fairness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holmbeck, along with a growing number of organic actors, is however broadly supportive of the concept of regenerative organic. This represents a shift in thinking within the organic community. Previously there has been some resistance to the term over concerns that it might unhelpfully suggest shortcomings in \u2018basic\u2019 organic standards. There is a new openness to the idea of \u201cmaking organic even better\u201d, as Holmbeck puts it.<\/p>\n

The Australian organic farmer (and former president of IFOAM Organics International), Andr\u00e9 Leu<\/strong>, sees a natural alignment between regenerative agriculture and the aspirations of Organic 3.0, especially its commitment to engaging with a range of food and farming approaches in the interest of smoothing the path to more sustainable systems.<\/p>\n

Ready to Roc<\/h4>\n

There is a reason why the the modern regenerative organic movement sprang up first in the United States, and it has little to do with the fact that the term was coined there. Tensions within the US organic movement have been growing for years over allegations that the USDA Organic scheme has steadily been enabling the \u201cindustrialisation of organic\u201d \u2013 most potently symbolised by the giant certified organic feedlots (CAFO) that are reportedly driving small organic dairy producers out of business, but also fuelled by the USDA\u2019s decision to allow soil-less growing (such as hydroponics) under organic rules. Dissatisfaction with the direction organic has taken has created fertile ground for the development of new standards, sometimes labelled \u2018organic plus\u2019 \u2013 Regenerative Organic Certified and the Real Organic Project<\/strong> being the most prominent schemes.<\/p>\n

But the Regenerative Organic Alliance<\/strong>, the coalition of organisations and businesses behind Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC)<\/strong>, frames the ROC scheme very much as a positive development. Launched in March 2018, with the aim of developing practices that go beyond existing requirements of the US National Organic Program, ROC says it works with a number of farming, animal welfare and social justice bodies with existing \u201chigh-bar certifications\u201d (such as Demeter and Fair For Life) to \u201chelp avoid duplicative audits or burdensome paperwork\u201d. Crucially, certification under the scheme requires USDA Organic as a baseline.<\/p>\n

The ROC scheme is based on a holistic, three-pillar approach \u2013 soil health<\/strong>, animal welfare <\/strong>and social fairness<\/strong>. Again, this is strikingly similar to the \u201cfour pillars\u201d of IFOAM\u2019s definition of organic. Some therefore continue to argue that the focus should be on assertively promoting organic standards, and restoring organic integrity where it has been eroded, rather than creating new \u2018add on\u2019 schemes.<\/p>\n

But others believe the hype around regenerative creates an opportunity for organic, especially in terms of its potential to improve and drive change in agriculture more widely. Writing in The Ecologist<\/em>, Sarah Compson<\/strong>, associate director of standards innovation at the Soil Association, suggests that \u201corganic and regenerative have the same North star\u201d and that their \u201cmutually agreeable visions can best be achieved through recognising their synergies and finding smart ways to complement and collaborate with one another\u201d.<\/p>\n

Organic delivers<\/h4>\n

During the writing of this article, Unilever announced plans to direct \u20ac100 million into a new fund to support projects and companies that are accelerating the regenerative agriculture transition. To which, Paul Holmbeck replied: \u201cWell, You could start by helping farmers transition to organic farming. It has identical goals and many of the same practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps, then, the real opportunity for organic in the global rush towards regenerative agriculture is this: To tell a more compelling and urgent story about how organic delivers comprehensively on regenerative outcomes, with decades of real-word evidence to prove it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Author: <\/strong>Jim Manson, Journalist<\/p>\n

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