{"id":20400,"date":"2023-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forigo.it\/non-categorizzato\/regenerative-agriculture-what-is-it-and-how-to-implement-it"},"modified":"2024-11-06T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:11:35","slug":"regenerative-agriculture-what-is-it-and-how-to-implement-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forigo.it\/en\/news\/regenerative-agriculture-what-is-it-and-how-to-implement-it","title":{"rendered":"Regenerative Agriculture: what is it and how to implement it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since its inception, about 20,000 years ago, agriculture has evolved into a system that can provide as much food as possible to the world\u2019s population at the lowest possible cost. As a result, today, farmers \u2013 especially those engaged in “commodity” crops, such as rice, corn, soya and wheat \u2013 suffer from a generalized drop in profitability<\/strong>, linked to international markets, characterized by extremely fluctuating prices.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the effects of climate change are felt<\/strong>, with periods of extreme drought and high temperatures interspersed with increasingly frequent episodes of heavy rainfall. This last criticality becomes particularly serious in relation to the non covering of the soils<\/strong>: heavy occasional rains on bare soils determine erosion and loss of organic substance.<\/p>\n

Between half 800 and half 900 many rural areas of southern Europe have depopulated precisely because they were rendered unproductive by soil erosion and flooding: which is why the European Community has launched several measures to increase the sustainability of agricultural systems, e.g. Farm To Fork.<\/p>\n

In addition, the CE has also identified as priorities those strategies that can ensure the continuity of agricultural activity<\/strong>. One of these is regenerative<\/strong> agriculture<\/strong>: a set of agronomic techniques aimed at safeguarding and “regenerating” the first factor of agricultural production, the soil.<\/p>\n

Why regenerative agriculture?<\/h2>\n

Unlike the “old” intensive agriculture, predominant in Europe at least until the early 1990s, which tended to exploit the soil without worrying about long-term damage (deep ploughs, monoculture, fertilizations mainly minerals, defense from adversities to calendar, etc.), regenerative agriculture has as first objective to maintain and to improve the fertility of the soils<\/strong>, improving sustainability and resilience of ecosystems by ensuring both economic and environmental benefits for farmers.<\/p>\n

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A real agronomic revolution whose basic philosophy integrates the concepts of: nutrient recycling<\/strong>, atmospheric nitrogen fixation<\/strong>, assessment<\/strong> of the relationship between presence and damage of biotic adversity, water conservation<\/strong> and biodiversity and carbon sequestration (carbon farming).<\/p>\n

But what does this approach actually mean? Here are the key points divided by agronomic objectives.<\/p>\n

1.     Improving the health of the soil<\/h3>\n