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

Thu Dec 21 11:56:00 PST 2023

She is a prophet! Just love her!  Thanks, Catherine

 “We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to
recover is our original unity. *What we have to be is what we are.”*
Thomas Merton

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:44 PM Arthur Blomme <art at integralshift.ca> wrote:

>  This is the path forward for fixing our environment and being free from
> war.
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> 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
> <https://navdanyainternational.org/?nltr=Njc7MTIyNDA7aHR0cHM6Ly9uYXZkYW55YWludGVybmF0aW9uYWwub3JnL3B1YmxpY2F0aW9ucy9yZWdlbmVyYXRpb24taXMtbGlmZS87OzJhODFmMWU1MjIyZDJkZTcxNmIyOTM3YjE3YmE5MDIz>*‘,
> 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
> <https://navdanyainternational.org/?nltr=Njc7MTIyNDA7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9vZGV0aGljc2NvdW5jaWwub3JnL3RoZW1lL3Bvd2VyLWluLXRoZS1mb29kLXN5c3RlbS87OzIyNWVmYjA1NjEyYjZhMGM0Mjk1NjY3ZTcwZDNkNzI4>
> 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
> <https://navdanyainternational.org/?nltr=Njc7MTIyNDA7aHR0cHM6Ly9uYXZkYW55YWludGVybmF0aW9uYWwub3JnL3B1YmxpY2F0aW9ucy90aGUtY29ycG9yYXRlLXB1c2gtZm9yLXN5bnRoZXRpYy1mb29kcy87O2FiMDY3NjRlNmM2NGNiOGMzMDkxNzE4Y2ZjMGQ1NDI5>,
> 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 around plant 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
> <https://navdanyainternational.org/?nltr=Njc7MTIyNDA7aHR0cHM6Ly9uYXZkYW55YWludGVybmF0aW9uYWwub3JnL3B1YmxpY2F0aW9ucy9wbGFudHMtcGxhbmV0LXBlb3BsZS10aGUtbGl2aW5nLWVhcnRoLWFuZC1jbGltYXRlLWNoYW5nZS87OzczMjBiNzRiYWVmOGE4OTllNGYxOTA3ZWZlNTQzMWVi>.
> 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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> Regeneration is Life – An Agroecological Paradigm to Overtake the Climate
> Crisis
> Download Pdf On the occasion of the 28th Climate COP, Navdanya
> International presents “Regeneration is Life – An Agroecological Paradigm
> to Overtake the Climate Crisis” There are two main paradigms…
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