Regenerative Agricultural Practices for Climate Mitigation
Regenerative agricultural practices for climate mitigation & sustainability include sequestering carbon and improving soil health. These practices also offer an opportunity to reward farmers via carbon credits.
And regenerative agriculture is one example of a circular economy activity. Sustainable food systems and sustainable food resources need to be regenerative, resilient, and efficient.
Topics:
- Regenerative & Conservative Agriculture
- Common Regenerative Agriculture Practices
- Sequestering Carbon in Soils
- Paying Farmers
- Canada – Publication of Proposed Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations
Regenerative & Conservation Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture practices can improve soil health, improve water retention, and sequester carbon, and improve soil water retention.
Adopting both regenerative agriculture and conservation agricultural farming practices can help mitigate climate change, increase biodiversity, reduce runoff, and improve soil-water availability.
Regenerative practices include growing cover crops, reducing soil disturbances, crop rotation, maximizing sunlight and carbon with intercropping, maintaining soil armor, and integrating livestock.
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Common Regenerative Agricultural Practices
4 Soil Health Practices:
- Adopting no-till
- Applying fertilizer at variable rates
- Growing cover crops
- Planting green cover crops.
Sequestering Carbon in Soils
Initiatives to sequester carbon in soils need ongoing monitoring to ensure permanence over time to maintain soil health and realize local contributions to global efforts to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
There is a growing number of initiatives to sequester carbon in soil, help mitigate climate change, and reward farmers under carbon trading systems. Ensuring permanence is key.
Paying Farmers
There is an increasing number of organizations paying farmers to implement regenerative practices in return for the carbon offsets generated.
Regenerative agriculture practices help to increase soil health. These practices also help to store more carbon in soils.
Regenerative agriculture is one example of a circular economy activity. Sustainable food resources need to be regenerative, resilient, and efficient.
Canada - Publication of Proposed Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations
In March 2021, Canada published in the Canada Gazette, Part I (CGI) proposed Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations (Canada).
The Federal GHG Offset System builds on the recommendations in Canada’s Climate Plan: A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy.
And the Federal GHG Offset System builds on the recommendations in the Pan-Canadian Greenhouse Gas Offsets Framework.
- Last Modified: May 17, 2024