Regenerative Agriculture

Learn about Regenerative Agriculture

 

COURSE CONTENTS

Ten lessons as follows:

1. Scope and Nature of Regenerative Agriculture

  • Environmental impacts of traditional agriculture
  • Pollution - land and water
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Decreased biodiversity
  • Why regenerative agriculture matters
  • Sustainable agriculture versus regenerative agriculture
  • Principles of Regenerative Agriculture
  • Corporate initiatives 

2, Functional and Integrative Level Systems

  • Functional regenerative agriculture
  • Improving soil health
  • Soil microbiome and soil health
  • Regenerative practices
  • Cover crops
  • Zero tilling
  • Rotating crops
  • Organic composts
  • Synthetic inputs
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Organic carbon
  • Integrative regenerative agriculture
  • Design and redesign
  • Permaculture ideas embedded in a system of regeneration
  • Energy flow
  • Imbalances
  • Wildlife habitat considerations
  • Increasing biodiversity
  • Increase biodiversity below ground 
  • Increase biodiversity above ground

3. Integrative and Evolutionary Level Systems

  • Introduction
  • Systemic level
  • Case study
  • Humans in the ecosystem
  • Social impact
  • Antifragility concept
  • Adaptive and agile
  • Creating a microclimate
  • Capital inputs
  • Evolutionary level
  • Storying land
  • Supply chains/ Supply webs
  • Supply webs and big agriculture
  • Defining a bioregion
  • Defining an agroecosystem
  • Connect the land to its larger agroecosystem and bioregion

4. System Inputs: Climate, Topography, Nutrients 

  • Climate
  • Pressure, temperature, rainfall
  • Soils and climate
  • Topography - soils and slopes
  • Broad ranging topography
  • Soils and parent material
  • Soils and nutrition
  • Nitrogen
  • Nitrogen cycle
  • Nitrogen fixation
  • Ammonification
  • Nitrification
  • Phosphorus
  • Potassium
  • Fertilisers - synthetic, organic
  • Organic materials
  • Plant materia;
  • Dead animals
  • Manure
  • Garbage
  • Hay, straw, paper, sawdust
  • Carbon
  • Biochar
  • Mineralisation
  • Chemoautotrophic organisms

5. Soils and Soil Regeneration

  • Introduction
  • Soil types
  • Soil classification
  • Soil horizons
  • Organic matter
  • Soil absorption
  • Soil desorption
  • Introduction to soil health
  • Presence of organic matter
  • Facilitate water resilience
  • Permeability
  • Balance & Diversity in the microbiome
  • Life forms
  • Monocultures and threat to soil and crop health
  • Approaches to regenerate soil and improve soil health
  • Cover crops
  • Limited disturbance - no or low tillage
  • Controlled traffic farming
  • Carbon retention

6. Livestock and Grazing Management 

  • Introduction
  • Integrating livestock
  • Habitat restoration
  • Assisting carbon sequestration through grazing and increasing photosynthesis
  • Pest control
  • Reducing impacts - soil compaction, tillage, animal control
  • Effects of regenerative grazing on biodiversity
  • Challenges
  • Compaction
  • Aquaculture
  • Regenerative grazing management
  • Rotational grazing
  • Orchard grazing
  • Holistic planned management
  • Organic livestock management
  • Complimentary Grazing

7. Agroforestry and Silvopasture 

  • Introduction to agroforestry
  • Incorporating trees and perennials
  • Benefits of agroforestry
  • Silvopasture
  • Silvoarable
  • Value of trees in agriculture
  • Carbon sinks
  • Carbon credits
  • Agroforestry and regenerative agriculture
  • Erosion control
  • Lowering water tables
  • Windbreaks
  • Timber, firewood
  • Fodder
  • Honey production
  • Wildlife habitats
  • Firebreaks
  • Increased rainfall
  • Challenges of agroforestry in regenerative agriculture
  • Financial considerations

8. System Outputs: Social, Economic and Global Trends

  • Sustainability and maintenance
  • Potential outcomes of regenerative agriculture
  • Physical outcomes
  • Increase crop health and resilience
  • Improve soil health
  • Create circular system
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Improve social and economic wellbeing of communities
  • Improve food nutritional quality and human health
  • Food access and security
  • Improving food safety
  • Increasing farm profitability
  • Socio economic communities influencing adoption of agroforestry
  • Carbon economics

9. Implementation and Whole Farm Planning 

  • Implementing a regenerative agriculture system
  • Assessing natural components
  • Analysis and planning
  • Topsoil
  • Water
  • Determining business opportunities
  • Developing a business case
  • Cash flow
  • High cash flow crops
  • Long term crops
  • Cash flow concerns
  • Marketing direct to the customer
  • Organic vs non organic
  • Support and funding
  • Goal setting and planning
  • Introducing and monitoring change & Project Management
  • Benefits of Sustainable change
  • What factors impact on sustainability goals
  • Project managing regenerative agriculture

10. Special Project (PBL) Regenerative Agricultural Enterprise Proposal

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