[Freefromwar] Regenerative agroecology: the necessary solution to counter climate change

[Arthur Blomme]

  This is the path forward for fixing our environment and being free 
from war.

Art

By Dr Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International

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*REGENERATIVE AGROECOLOGY: * 
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*THE NECESSARY SOLUTION TO COUNTER CLIMATE CHANGE* 
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By Dr Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International

The industrial agriculture paradigm, which sees the world as a machine, 
and not as a self-organized living system, has created devastation on 
the planet, while contributing significantly to the issue of climate 
change. Navdanya International’s latest graphic report, ‘*Regeneration 
is Life 
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presented at Cop 28 in Dubai, analyzes the actual causes at the root of 
climate change and highlights the true regenerative solutions against 
the false solutions proposed by polluters.

As pointed out in the report, the ecologically destructive practices of 
industrial agriculture account for 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions 
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(GHG), making the global food system one of the main culprits behind 
climate change and environmental degradation.

The fertilizer industry is responsible for more than a fifth 
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of total estimated greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture systems 
worldwide. Factory farms are significant contributors to soil and water 
pollution. The FAO considers that livestock in CAFOs accounts for 14.5% 
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of global greenhouse gas emissions, while some estimates put the figure 
above 30% 
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Today, the majority of the industrialized and globalized food system is 
concentrated in the hands of a few companies. Five agrochemical 
companies hold a 55% monopoly 
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over the $61.5 USD billion world seed market. In 2018, 61% of global 
seeds and pesticide production 
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was owned by three mega-corporations. Four corporations 
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hold a monopoly over global commodity food trade, and approximately 80% 
of the US beef market is controlled by only four firms. In 2018, seven 
firms 
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dominated poultry, pigs, cattle, and aquaculture genetics, and made over 
$80 billion in sales.

But these very corporations are behind the push for synthetic and 
lab-made foods 
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with meat industry giants like Tyson foods, JBS, Cargill, Nestlé, and 
Maple Leaf Foods have invested up to $2.78 billion, in this new sector. 
Synthetic and lab-cultured foods are quickly becoming a next means to 
consolidate even more power and profit into the hands of a few food 
giants without holding them accountable to the consequences of the 
system they perpetuate.

The dominant corporate-sponsored narratives are now pushing for the 
reduction of complex ecological collapse, and climate change, into 
dualistic narratives aroundplant versus animal 
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instead of addressing the larger crisis of how current industrial 
practices are destroying the Earth’s ecosystems.

Acting as if the world were a machine undermines and ultimately destroys 
life processes and organic systems. In the European Union, for example, 
total numbers of all types of farmers fell from 14.4 million to 9.1 
million between 2005 to 2020. Meaning that over 5 million 
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small and medium-sized companies have had to shut down. Meanwhile, 
global biodiversity has decreased by an average of 69% since 1970 
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The colonizing mentality sees nature as dead matter to be exploited and 
used. Colonizers do not see self-organisation 
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They do not see creativity. They just see control and profits while 
bringing disease and ill health, destroying the land, the soil, and the 
water.

False solutions, such as synthetic foods, involve a further separation 
from nature. But the separation between us and nature is the root of the 
problem.

We are now at a watershed between perpetuating the mechanistic model or 
choosing to live in harmony with nature 
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and its regenerative and creative capacities. We need to bring life back 
into the soil. In the micro-organisms of the soil we find the life we 
cannot see, which is the basis of our health and the solution to the 
climate problem.

The real solution to the ecological and climate crisis does not lie in 
creating substitutes for food or expanding the industrial paradigm, but 
in scaling the initiatives all over the world that are already working 
on healing our connection with the Earth through care 
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These solutions already exist and are being implemented 
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by local, diverse food communities around the world. Showing us that it 
is possible to walk a path of living in harmony with nature. We are part 
of the Earth’s systems, our food is a continuum of health 
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from the ecosystems of the earth. We are deeply and inherently 
interconnected.

Agroecological systems can improve soil health, reduce erosion and 
increase resilience against the impacts of climate change through 
biodiversity 
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conservation.

Agroecology and organic farming also reduce the need for external inputs 
through integration of agroecosystem, increase crop diversification and 
soil management. By increasing carbon sequestration, organic agriculture 
has a lower climate impact than industrial agriculture. Regenerative 
agroecology, if systemised, has the regenerative potential to reverse 
the course 
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and serve as an important tool for climate change mitigation.

There are two ways of seeing ourselves and our relationship with the 
Earth. Either we think of ourselves as separate from Nature or as one 
with it. It only takes putting a seed in the ground to create this 
vision. And every additional community that lives ecologically, lives a 
better life. It is a very exciting time to be alive to regenerate life.

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