Stage 5 Sustainable Biomes

Regenerative agriculture is an effective way to restore biodiversity and stabilize the climate, but what exactly is it? This video explores three different regenerative practices that have great potential both in food production and in healing the land.

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Sources:

Organic Agriculture does more harm than good
Searchinger et al., Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change, 2018.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0757-z

Bacteria Converts Ammonium into Nitrite and Nitrate:
Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis, Teaming with Microbes, 2006, 48.

Myceilium brings water to plants:
Ibid, 57.

Worms increase water absorption and allow plant roots to penetrate deeper:
Ibid, 89.

Fertilizer leeches into water:
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, 2005.
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/engineer/facts/05-073.htm

Regenerative grazing can sequester carbon:
Sanderman et al., Impacts of Rotational Grazing on Soil Carbon in Native Grass-Based Pastures in Southern Australia, 2015.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article%3Fid%3D10.1371/journal.pone.0136157

Regenerative grazing can build soil and reverse desertification:
Allan Savory, Holistic Management, 1999, 244.

The growth of grass:
Global Rangelands, Basics of Grass Growth
https://globalrangelands.org/topics/rangeland-ecology/grass-growth
Julius Ruechel, The Daily Pasture Rotation, 2009.
https://www.grass-fed-solutions.com/pasture-rotation.html

Overgrazing leads to erosion, drought, and desertification:
Ibanez et al., Desertification due to overgrazing in a dynamic commercial livestock–grass–soil system, 2007.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380007000993

Food forests consist of 7 layers:
Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden, 2001, 172.

Unbroken Ground explains the critical role food will play in the next frontier of our efforts to solve the environmental crisis. It explores four areas of agriculture that aim to change our relationship to the land and oceans. Most of our food is produced using methods that reduce biodiversity, decimate soil and contribute to climate change. We believe our food can and should be a part of the solution to the environmental crisis – grown, harvested and produced in ways that restore our land, water and wildlife. The film tells the story of four groups that are pioneers in the fields of regenerative agriculture, regenerative grazing, diversified crop development and restorative fishing.
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Our new farm mapping software uses satellite imagery to help farmers map the boundaries of Australian paddocks from space.

Now is the time to save the world’s farming systems – and it all starts with the soil

The urban poor in Bangladesh's small cities already faced food insecurity before COVID-19 – but the lockdown made affording food much harder.

Follow world-renowned scientist Cary Fowler into the heart of the arctic, where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault lies nestled in the frozen Norwegian landscape. Among the most important buildings in the world, the Seed Vault holds the key to human survival: more than 880,000 seed samples, the largest collection in the world. These seeds are critical because, unless safeguarded, agriculture biodiversity is at risk of decline in the face of changing environmental and population pressures.

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There's an old saying about soil: they're not making it anymore. But some farmers are.

Holding more water in soils is critical to reducing catastrophic fire, flood and drought, land managers say.

Inspired by Charles Massy's best-selling book "Call of the Reed Warbler", filmmaker Amy Browne set out across the dry farming country of South East NSW to meet Massy and the other trailblazing farmers bringing new life to their land.

Regenerative agriculture is one of the most promising wide-scale environmental solutions. This short documentary is a comprehensive journey through a variety of landscapes and regenerative farming techniques.

'From the Ground Up' is a story of genuine change and inspiration - tracing the steps of individuals who transformed their practices following the life-changing realisation - that farmers have a unique opportunity to heal the planet.

Additional resources on regenerative agriculture:
TED Talks
- Allan Savory on "How to fight desertification and reverse climate change": https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change/transcript?language=en
- Charles Massy on "How regenerative farming can help save the planet and human health": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et8YKBivhaE

Books:
"Call of the Reed Warbler – A New Agriculture, A New Earth" by Charles Massy
"The Biggest Estate on Earth – How Aborigines Made Australia" by Bill Gammage
"Back from the Brink – How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved" by Peter Andrews

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With global demand for food set to increase by nearly 70 percent by 2050, sustainable food production is one of the biggest challenges for the future.more food. That should give us hope that we can flip this enormous problem into one of the most delicious tools to tackle environmental meltdown."

earthrise went to Finland and Italy to explore two alternative projects that are paving the way for the food of the future.

Zero Waste Restaurant

A restaurant in Finland is challenging the traditional way of operating a fine dining eatery.

Ultima, in Helsinki, is pioneering a closed economy system where they not only reduce waste and recycle nutrients but are cultivating their own food on an urban site, thereby making the whole food production and consumption system highly efficient.

Its Michelin-starred chefs Henri Alen and Tommi Tuominen have designed a somewhat unusual menu from cricket tacos with queso fresco to mushroom pasta grown in coffee waste.

"It all started when me and my colleague Tommi, we were taking the bins out and we were thinking how can we make this much waste, how could we do the things better for the environment, for the customer?" says Alen. "That's our biggest ambition."

The pioneering restaurateurs set up Ultima in the belief that the old low-standard dishes of environmental eating should be a thing of the past. They hope that they can start a conversation.

"We just need to grow things forward, make people think," says Alen.

Jellyfish for Dinner

In Italy, scientists are attempting to tackle the staggering number of jellyfish swarms with a new solution - by eating them.

Exploiting this foodstuff, which has been previously unexplored in the West, could begin to restore balance to the marine ecosystem, which has been devastated by a surge in jellyfish numbers, and also offer a much-needed sustainable meat alternative in an age where the meat industry is contributing to global climate change, deforestation and water degradation.

Research scientist Antonella Leone and her colleagues aim to show food safety authorities that jellyfish are a safe, plentiful food source.

"In Europe, jellyfish are considered a nuisance .... this could be changed if our studies demonstrate that they are a very powerful resource of food," she says."[It] could be important, for local fishermen, local restaurants, for local economies."

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