While regenerative agriculture has environmental perks, the race and equity issues in regenerative agriculture deserve a closer look.
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Clearly, there istremendous promise in regenerative agriculture.
Regenerative agriculture is not a new concept.
Founder and President of The Acequia Institute, and Professor of American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies at the University of Washington
Perhaps the biggest fallacy about regenerative agriculture is that it is an innovative way of growing food.
(Think farm workers, not farm owners or managers).
It is very easy to go from dispossession of land to erasure, he says.
They must not be brushed aside in the quest for the next trend in agriculture and alternative food culture.
A path forward requires a major mental shift.
You cant get to the solutions by just focusing on ecology, or on agro-ecological factors, says Pena.
That means improving labor practices and providing credit to (and access to land for) BIPOC farmers.
We need collective action that takes care of the people at the core of our food system.
Real change will require taking smallholder agriculture and smallholder wisdom seriously when practicing regenerative agriculture.
Founder and President of The Acequia Institute, and Professor of American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies at the University of Washington
I get concerned when self-interested actors fabulize the term regenerative agriculture.
She cautions that this lack of clarity is about much more than mere semantics.
These recommended actions may seem beyond an individual readers sphere of influence on the regenerative agriculture movement.
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