Regenerative Agriculture: Growing Food For Tomorrow With Elizabeth Whitlow | Director of Regenerative Organic Alliance

Talking to Elizabeth it’s hard not to be inspired by her energy and vision for regenerative agriculture. Her deep understanding of the systemic issues around historical and current farming practices damaging our planet, degrading animal welfare, and the human rights issues within the farming industry are vast and fascinating. Tune in to hear how you and your company can get involved and help this important movement.

Here are a few things we discuss in this great chat

• The difference between an Organic Certification and a Regenerative Organic Certification and why it’s essential for people and the planet.
• The benefits of regenerative agriculture include; increased carbon sequestration, soil health, the ability to grow more nutrient-dense food, farms’ ability to be less impacted by draughts and flooding, and, a 40% reduction in inputs such as fertiliser.
• The controversial topic of hydroponic food growth
• GMO corn and soy used for animal feeds
• Integrated grazing to build healthy soil
• The importance of learning from indigenous people who have lived on the land for many years around the world to regenerate the earth and soil.
• Is the concept of cheap food broken?
• How long the Regenerative Agriculture Certification takes and how brands can get involved and support farmers in their supply chain.
• Surprising loopholes in the Organic Certification

Relevant Links

• Regenerative Organic Certification
• Kiss The Ground Documentary
• The Rodale Institute

Elizabeth’s Top 3 Green MBA Topics

1. Transparency - Ensuring that companies are transparent in their reporting, and business operations. For example in the farming sector, it can often be challenging to pay a living wage, farmers need to be transparent about the pay gap (if one exists) and how they plan to pay a living wage over time.
2. Life Cycle Analysis - how do you reduce your waste and minimize your carbon emissions at every stage of your product’s life cycle.
3. Waste reduction - 30% of emissions from agriculture come from food waste, waste, in general, needs to be rethought, renamed, and, used to continue the nutrition cycle - ultimately, we shouldn’t have “waste'“.

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