Meeting global challenges with regenerative agriculture producing food and energy

Lisa A. Schulte; Bruce E. Dale; Stefano Bozzetto; Matt Liebman; Glaucia M. Souza; Nick Haddad; Tom L. Richard; Bruno Basso; Robert C. Brown; Jorge A. Hilbert; J. Gordon Arbuckle

doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00827-y

Meeting global challenges with regenerative agriculture producing food and energy

Lisa A. Schulte, Bruce E. Dale, Stefano Bozzetto, Matt Liebman, Glaucia M. Souza, Nick Haddad, Tom L. Richard, Bruno Basso, Robert C. Brown, Jorge A. Hilbert, J. Gordon Arbuckle

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Abstract

The world currently faces a suite of urgent challenges: environmental degradation, diminished biodiversity, climate change and persistent poverty and associated injustices. All of these challenges can be addressed to a large extent through agriculture. A dichotomy expressed as ‘food versus fuel’ has misled thinking and hindered needed action towards building agricultural systems in ways that are regenerative, biodiverse, climate resilient, equitable and economically sustainable. Here we offer examples of agricultural systems that meet the urgent needs while also producing food and energy. We call for refocused conversation and united action towards rapidly deploying such systems across biophysical and socioeconomic settings.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	384-388
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature Sustainability
Volume	5
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00827-y
State	Published - May 2022

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Global and Planetary Change
Food Science
Geography, Planning and Development
Ecology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Urban Studies
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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