ORGANIC
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
Agriculture - i.e. the arable industries including aquaculture and forestry - is the only industry that can be fully regenerative. Other industries are more or less dependent on raw materials from elsewhere. Agriculture in general has become dependent and more consuming than supporting - but unnecessarily.
Food, fiber, building materials and really everything we need for life can be created in an ecosystem where the raw materials are air, water, sunlight and minerals that can be released from the ground itself. Properly managed, the land is maintained or improved while it is being farmed and annually yields a surplus. It is easy to show theoretically and with practical examples on a small scale that what can be produced in this way is enough to feed the world's population - even when it increases to a peak of 11-12 billion. If we can scale up the good examples that already exist.
How do we achieve that in practice?

The choice of food or food raw material is crucial for sustainable development, but it is in the production itself that the key lies.

A healthy agriculture not only minimizes negative impact on the environment - but also has a positive impact on climate, biodiversity and animal welfare. We call that agriculture organic regenerative.

"Organic" because it does not use unnatural chemical control nor artificial fertilizers and thus fulfills the rules required to be called organic.

Regenerative because it regenerates the soil - i.e. ensures that the soil does not lose its fertility through erosion or through one-sided cultivation.

Green plants fix carbon dioxide from the air and bind it in the soil as humus, which increases soil fertility. But when cereals - i.e. wheat, barley, rye or oats - are grown, the land is without green vegetation for a long time, and then the organisms in the soil breathe and instead release carbon dioxide and break down the humus. This means that growing annual crops year after year is the opposite of regenerative. This can be compensated in various ways, which involves keeping the ground as much as possible covered with green plants. In classic eco-farming, the annual crops alternate with perennial pasture in a crop rotation that means that over time the soil binds more carbon dioxide from the air than it emits, or at least binds as much as it emits.In this way, it also obtains the nitrogen needed to build protein directly from the air - and becomes independent of energy-intensive fertilizer production.

Being organic regenerative is an ideal for all farmers - to leave the earth to the next generation in the same or better condition than it was when you took over responsibility for it. But in today's reality, being regenerative without contributing to deterioration elsewhere on earth through the purchase of fertilizer or feed requires something extra. That's why we talk about ecologically regenerative.

It is a long-lived myth that food production in the world would not be enough if we cultivated organically regeneratively. The reality is that today there is a very large overproduction in the world, where significantly more than half of what is produced goes to waste or for other purposes than food. We have an overproduction that creates unsustainable and unhealthy habits and unhealthy competition. Postponing costs to the environment and the future should not be profitable. Unfortunately, it is still profitable - and therefore attention to these issues is required of all of us.

Anyone who wants to support ecological regeneration should primarily think locally and ecologically. By choosing an organically certified product, you contribute to a farmer being able to go in a regenerative direction.