Hi,

Regenerative agriculture has the power to change the world.

Agriculture faces a trifecta of potentially devastating challenges. As a result of overfarming, development and other factors, soil capacity is dramatically declining. About one-third of the world’s topsoil is already acutely degraded, and the United Nations estimates a complete degradation within 60 years.* The United States alone is losing soil 10 times faster than it’s replenished.

Regenerative agriculture has the power to change that. It promotes the health of degraded soils by restoring organic carbon, sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide and reverses industrial agriculture’s contributions to climate change.

Regenerative agriculture is the backbone of climate solutions. We need to focus on agriculture’s connection to climate change, sustainable practices that can help build soil fertility and what farmers and other experts say about regenerative agriculture’s potential for emissions reduction. We need to build a sustainable food system; regenerative agriculture practices including increasing biodiversity, the usage of cover crops and minimal to low tillage can improve watersheds, enhance our ecosystem and revitalize economies.

EARTHDAY‍.ORG invites you to join another installment of our Earth Day Live series: Can we reverse climate change by rebuilding organic matter? Regenerative Agriculture as a path to food supply resiliency on February 11th at noon EST.

Join us for the live event.

The panel will be 90 minutes and hosted over Zoom. By registering and joining the webinar, you’ll be able to ask questions during the Q&A. If you can’t connect over Zoom, we’ll also be streaming the event over Facebook.

Our panelists include:

• Dr. Bradford Baker — Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Farmer and Rancher; Southern Farm Lab
• Julia Collins — Founder and CEO, Planet FWD
• Rishi Kumar — Farmer, Educator 
• John Piotti — President and CEO, American Farmland Trust 
• Jillian Semaan — Director of Food and Environment, EARTHDAY‍.ORG
• Felipe Villela — Founder, reNature

Regenerative Agriculture has incredible potential to reverse climate change bringing numerous benefits to farmers, consumers and the planet. 

Join us next week as we discuss how regenerative agriculture can help solve the climate crisis. 

See you there,

Jillian Semaan
Director of Food and Environment

Footnotes:

* Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/