If you are familiar with Drawdown you already know that regenerative agriculture plays an important role among the top solutions that that organization says will help us reach “the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping catastrophic climate change — as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.”
Regenerative agriculture is one of the simplest ways we have to build soil health, and at the same time, help create climate resilience into the future. And now people all over the world are learning to access money from a resource that we may not have realized is salable – sequestered carbon from greenhouse gas.
In a few days we have the opportunity to learn much more about regenerative agriculture. During a free, 2-part online symposium entitled Enabling Regenerative Agriculture: Getting Paid for Improving Soil Health, speakers from several countries will outline the benefits of regenerative agriculture and explain how carbon sequestration programs are already working around the world. You are invited to participate in the symposium at 5 p.m. Nov. 10 and 17 via a Zoom event. Sessions will be approximately 2 hours long both days. The symposium is presented by the nonprofit Cultivate Oregon and offered free of charge thanks to the symposium’s generous sponsors and donors. Registration is required for each day you wish to attend (and they are both going to be great!) Register to be sent your Zoom links. You can view the speaker lineup and schedule here.
Participants will learn how to initiate regenerative agricultural practices, reduce harmful impacts of industrial agriculture, sequester carbon emissions, and gain financial compensation for improving soil while mitigating the climate crisis. During the symposium an internationally recognized team of educators, scientists, and business people will share how Earth’s working lands can become rejuvenated while mitigating climate change. This noncontroversial, nonpolitical approach to mitigating climate change earns landowners money, enriches and rejuvenates the earth’s working lands, and produces a sustainable food production system. The symposium will showcase case studies where regenerative agriculture is already working well, and participants will hear directly from those who are already supporting programs that help farmers get paid for improving soil health.
Presenters include the world’s most awarded soil scientist, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at Ohio State University Professor Rattan Lal, who will share a statement on “Putting Science into Action.” Professor Lal is often referred to as the “soil prophet” and is the first soils scientist to ever receive the World Food Prize and the second to receive the Japan Prize for Technology and Innovation. These awards recognize his 50 years of work on soil health, a global sustainable food supply, and the capture of atmospheric carbon into the soil. Experts from Australia and five U.S. states will also present during the symposium. Time will be provided for questions from participants.
Participants have the opportunity to donate to erase their carbon footprint here.
If you have questions, email Dr. Ray Seidler, retired US E.P.A. Senior Research Scientist and Member Cultivate Oregon steering committee, or call him, 541-601 9955. You may also email Cultivate Oregon Co-Director Rhianna Simes, M.S.Ed., or call her at 541-821-0203, and visit the symposium website.
See more about regenerative agriculture and more on the Southern Oregon Pachamama Alliance website here.