What's next for regenerative agriculture in the United States?

Regenerative agriculture holds huge potential to tackle our most pressing environmental and social challenges. But how do we ensure that the transition to a regenerative agriculture system supports equitable economic prosperity while allowing people and planet to flourish long term?

In a new report titled ‘What’s next for regenerative agriculture in the US?’ we take stock of the dynamic regenerative agriculture system in the US. The report sets out how our Growing our Future partners are working to ensure a deep and collaborative transition that centres social equity as well as environmental resilience. Here, we share initial results from our collaborative pilots focused on agricultural policy, finance for farmers' transitions, and pathways to market for regeneratively-produced products.

Growing our Future is made possible with funding support from the Walmart Foundation, The VF Foundation, the David Rockefeller Fund and Nestlé. Watch our must-see video on the initiative to find out more on the what, why and how behind Growing our Future.
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Accelerating the transition to regenerative food and agriculture in the UK

Forum is also working in the UK to accelerate the transition to regenerative food and agriculture. Over 2022 to 2024, and with funding from the Co-op Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation, and People’s Postcode Lottery, we are bringing actors from across the whole UK food and farming sector together. We are creating a space for the sector to build trusted relationships and collaborate effectively, in order to enable stakeholders to learn together, scale new practices, work across supply chains and solve shared problems. 
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The School of System Change: Build confidence, self-awareness and capacity on Spark


If you are looking to build your confidence in bringing a systemic approach to facilitate transformational change, the School invites you to join one of three Spark programme offerings in 2022 - two online and one in-person - running October to November. Spaces are expected to fill up fast, so we recommend applying to the UK, in-person programme by 6 July to secure your place.
 
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Events

6-7 September, Amsterdam
Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit

Join food and beverage brands, ingredients suppliers, food producers, supply chain monitoring platforms, AgTech companies, and consultants to tackle the challenges and identify the opportunities in harnessing the full potential of regenerative agriculture practices in the food industry. Forum’s Associate Directors Lesley Mitchell and Charlene Collison will be chairing the event and contributing insights from the Growing our Future initiative. Register here.

28-29 September, London
Net Zero Festival
 

The Net Zero Festival will bring together some of the world's foremost thinkers on what it takes to accelerate and expand the net zero transition. Forum’s CEO, Dr Sally Uren, will join the session Fighting Talk: The battle for Net Zero and how to deliver a Just Transition, and Forum’s Associate Director, James Payne will be hosting a workshop on the Business Transformation Compass. Register here.

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