An excerpt from the Executive Summary:
The way we manage agricultural land matters. It matters to people, it matters to our society, and it matters to the climate.…
This paper is not merely a revisiting of the problem or yet another dire report on the state of our planetary health. It is not another “wake up call” asking the reader to pay attention to the science or the climate crisis we can all see and feel around us. It is an invitation. An invitation to journey in a new direction. It is intended to be both a road map to change and a call to action to follow a new path. One led by science and blazed by farmers and ranchers across the globe. Blessed with committed soil scientists and the talents of agricultural expert Dr. Jennifer Hayden, Rodale Institute has taken another look at the developing science—and calls upon the reader to take positive steps towards impactful change.
Based on peer-reviewed research and the seasoned observations of agronomists working around the world, this white paper confidently declares that global adoption of regenerative practices across both grasslands and arable acreage could sequester more than 100% of current anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and that stable soil carbon can be built quickly enough to result in a rapid drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide. We now know enough to have real hope, and with this hope comes the responsibility to journey down a new path.…
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Also see: Rodale’s 2014 report ‘Regenerative Organic Agriculture Reverses Climate Change!’
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