Summary
Despite clear long-term benefits, the rate of farmers adopting regenerative agriculture is too slow to make a significant difference to climate change and biodiversity loss in the near future. The Agribusiness Task Force of the Sustainable Markets Institute has so far focused its attention on three case study value chains (US wheat, UK potatoes and Indian Basmati rice) from which to identify learnings transferable to other crops and geographies. The findings are captured in its report - Scaling Regenerative Farming: An Action Plan - which details five key areas which it believes require urgent action to make the economics of regenerative farming more appealing to farmers.