We, the members of the regenerative organics movement, invite you to educate yourself about the good news of regenerative organics and natural carbon sequestration.
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The degradation of soils from unsustainable agriculture and other development has released billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. But new research shows how effective land restoration could play a major role in sequestering CO2 and slowing climate change.
The world’s cultivated soils have lost 50 to 70 percent of their original carbon stock.
by judith d. schwartz
In the 19th century, as land-hungry pioneers steered their wagon trains westward across the United States, they encountered a vast landscape of towering grasses that nurtured deep, fertile soils.
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Agriculture is destructive, but doesn’t have to be. Livestock could help tackle climate change, desertification and rural poverty
Holistic management, with its counterintuitive claim that more, rather than fewer, cattle can improve the land, has been around for decades – a kind of perennial cattleman’s quarrel, and a thorn in the hide of ranchers and anti-ranchers alike.
The use of livestock as a tool for restoration has been scoffed at by scientists, reviled by vegetarians and those who blame cows for climate change, and a flashpoint for tension over how to conserve land in the American West.
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NAIROBI, 17 jul 2013 (IPS) – La iniciativa de Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación de Bosques (REDD) parece ser una estrategia para combatir el cambio climático que se ajusta perfectamente a las necesidades de África. Pero también recibe muchas críticas.
La deforestación y la agricultura son responsables de una parte significativa de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de África, aunque el continente no está entre los principales contribuyentes al recalentamiento planetario. Conservar e incluso extender la cubierta forestal africana –la cuenca del río Congo contiene el segundo mayor bosque tropical del mundo- reduciría las emisiones y, a la vez, absorbería carbono atmosférico.
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The following paddock layout offers a useful way of integrating trees into a grazing enterprise on sloping country. The aim of this approach is to minimise the impacts on production during the establishment phase, while offering significant benefits to both landscape and livestock once stock are reintroduced.
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Pasture cropping founder and Gulgong farmer Colin Seis with the new handbook.
June 17, 2013
First hand farmer accounts of experiences with pasture cropping have been released in a handbook by grass-roots Landcare network, Gecko ClaN.
The collection of interviews with seven farming families from throughout the North-East was commissioned by Gecko ClaN Catchment Landcare Network, and compiled by Albury journalist Kim Woods.
Pasture cropping is a technique of sowing zero-till annual crops directly into living perennial pastures.
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A team of ranchers in South Dakota are using holistic management techniques to regenerate our ailing grasslands and fight climate change
Dusk in Western South Dakota. A half-hour ago, at sunset, the world here made its last pulse for the day: birds hurried between fence posts, mosquitoes emerged from the shadows and feasted furiously, the sweet clover turned iridescent yellow in the late light. Now, the movement has ceased. Even by day it is a quiet landscape, inhabited primarily by meadowlarks and grasses. But as night draws its blue self over this place, the silence is profound.
On this particular 8,000-acre section of the Plains there is a single light in view, coming from inside a trailer. Bustling about camp are three men — cowboys, you’d probably call them. They certainly look the part, dressed in boots and wide-brimmed hats, one of them splitting old fence posts with an axe to build a campfire, another working on some beef for dinner. They call this pasture Horse Creek for the water running down its center, and on it they have 1,100 yearling cattle.
And yet, for these men the bovines are only a means to a greater end. According to the unofficial ringleader, Jim Howell, their goal is nothing less than helping the world to avert a looming global catastrophe. What they’re doing here is not just herding cattle; they are starting what they call “The Brown Revolution.”
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Believe it or not there are some paddocks in New South Wales that aren’t dry as a chip at the moment. The paddocks at Michael Inwood’s farm at Glenmire near Bathurst have green grass and even some moisture to spare.
Mr Inwood says half of this due to luck (of rainfall) and half of it’s due to the way he’s chosen to manage his paddocks. Michael Inwood runs his farm with the belief that sustainable production is not enough.
The former Nuffield Scholar studied and now implements regenerative agriculture to grow his soils, rather than just looking after them.
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El nuevo estudio, publicado en la revista ‘Nature Geoscience’, identificó un bucle de retroalimentación negativa en el que temperaturas más altas conducen a un aumento en las concentraciones de aerosoles naturales
Como las temperaturas están cada vez más calientes, las plantas liberan gases que ayudan a formar las nubes y enfriar el ambiente, según resume un estudio del Instituto Internacional para el Análisis de Sistemas Aplicados (IIASA), en Laxenburg (Austria), y la Universidad de Helsinki, en Finlandia.
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Los bosques y plantas del planeta se han adaptado al progreso del hombre para convertirse en su gran aliado contra el cambio climático. Un estudio de la Universidad de Helsinki (Finlandia) demuestra cómo el aumento de las temperaturas en la Tierra produce una reacción en los árboles que ayuda a enfriar el ambiente y a luchar contra el calentamiento global. El trabajo, realizado en once zonas forestales de Europa, Estados Unidos, Suráfrica y Siberia muestra cómo a media que se eleva el termómetro los bosques reaccionan liberando gases que favorecen la formación de nubes y bajan la temperatura.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change.html
El Premio Andrés Núñez de Prado en Investigación en Producción Ecológica fue al trabajo “Olivar Adehesado: Integración del Pastoreo con Ganado Ovino como Herramienta de Gestión en los Olivares Ecológicos”. Los autores de este trabajo son: María Dolores Carbonero Muñoz, Ernesto Fajardo Nolla, Pilar Fernández Robollo y José Emilio Guerrero Ginel. Aquí reproducimos un resumen de este trabajo de gran interés para olivareros ecológicos y ganaderos.
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