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While it may sound like the latest buzzword, regenerative farming in the UK is a grassroots movement led by farmers to reduce pesticides, move away from grain to grass-fed, and restore soil fertility and biodiversity.
We put nutrients back into the soil by rotating livestock through the fields and building up soil fertility, which is becoming known as ‘regenerative farming’.
The role of livestock, the damage of soy production in the Amazon and role of small-scale farmers – here’s what was on the table at COP26.
I love the machinery; it is poetry in motion to see a potato, carrot, or salad leaf harvester working well in a good crop. Those who romantically lament the passing of hand labour have seldom done much themselves.
Small-scale farmers will join campaigners for climate justice on a march this weekend at COP to demonstrate that they are an alternative to ‘destructive, high-polluting mainstream farming’.
Issue 12: Fairness and five years.
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