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Module 5: Dissertation or Final Project 60 credits
Module 5: Dissertation or Final Project 60 credits
This module encourages students to demonstrate their capacity for independent study by applying their knowledge of regenerative practices to a topic appropriate to the degree, such as consultancy tools, nutrition measurement, local food policies, research topics and consumer choices. Students are expected to submit their plans, practices and policies into present political context, and a wider philosophy about how we treat our earth.
Module aims:
To provide an opportunity for the student to pursue in depth a topic of their own choosing
To develop the skills and confidence necessary to carry out original research.
To explore statistical design and analysis of experiments to enable assessment of results.
To determine possible uptake of any positive results within the surrounding political economy of the food system
To propose suggestions recognising philosophies that address the relation between humans and earth.,
RegenFarm Platform"create a digital decision-support tool, enabling farmers to access data, advice and support, and a range of other useful resources. The tool can interpret a vast amount of data from farmers’ land, for example; contours, channels, land cover and rivers. "
Cases
Cases
Trees on free range poultry farm
Carinna Millstone Orchard Project
Researchers quantify carbon changes in Sierra Nevada meadows
Carbon farmin solutions suited to various livelihoods, communities, and systems of production
Leading Regen practitioners (Twitter @JanetHughes)
Certified Regenerative by AGW "allows for true regional and local flexibility while adhering to regenerative principles". Certified Animal Welfare, Grassfed and non-GMO.
What really happened to the bison
Farmer's Footprint; 2021 Reflections and vision for regenerative future
System
System
Regenerative Agriculture is all the rage, but it is not going to fix our food system "the movement often fails to credit Indigenous practices it draws from. It also tends to overlook the needs of farmers in the Global South and broader power inequality in the food system."
Culture
Culture
'Culture' derives, according to Cristina De Rossi, an anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College in London, from a French term, which in turn derives from the Latin "colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or 'cultivation and nurture'.
Wendell Berry The Agricultural crisis and culture states that: "A healthy culture is a communal order of memory, insight, value, work, conviviality, reverence, aspiration..... A healthy farm culture can be based only upon familiarity, and can grow only among a people soundly established upon the land;" Full Text
Decoloniality and Ethical Ecology "Ecology as a discipline and the diversity of those who call themselves ecologists have also been shaped and held back by often exclusionary Western approaches to knowing and doing ecology." Lists 5 shifts needed. Has anybody done this with soil ecology?
Philosophies
Philosophies
Science
Science
Popper versus Kuhn. Popper believed we build knowledge upon existing knowledge with critical evaluation of the new evidence. Kuhn believed there were 'revolutions' of knowledge where we grow knowledge within a structure (Paradigm) until that structure has to change completely to deal with new information. More
Ancient
Ancient
The Quest for (black) gold. Human Made Forests found "The intractable Gonzalo had been dispatched by Francisco, who was struggling to maintain control of the Inka he had "conquered" in Cusqo, on a mission to find the legendary El Dorado — a lake filled with gold." Instead he found what we now call biochar.
Tracing Regenerative Farming to its indigenous roots
New
New
“Climate change and other ecological disruptions challenge us to reconsider the deep history of minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals and to take a more process-oriented perspective that sees humanity as part of the larger cosmic and terrestrial drama of mobility and flow”. “Theory of the Earth Thomas Nail.
This programme speaks with the, otherwise silent, voice of soils, to this new 'movement' of the earth
Post productionist paradigm and UK RegenAg farmers
More on paradigms in soil science
DID YOU KNOW? That this story is spread around and really doesn’t work for most gardeners, including most Native American tribes? It was a specific tribe, corn, squash and beans. Not easy to replicate for most gardeners. ..
I have tried it with success in east central Illinois. Actually, I tried it just to see if it would work.It does. Beans fix nitrogen in the soil, and corn loves it. The beans have a natural pole for climbing. Beware if high winds that might flatten your corn and your beans. I’m sure there are some squashes better suited to it than others. What types have others used to some success?
Regenerative Thinking Nathan Einbinder, previoulsy leader of this Masters.
How Regen Ag is new tier of farming 'to transcend and include the earlier stages of development.'
Explanation by Anna Krzywoszynska
Also by Anna: Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources: Making Soils a Resource through Microbial Labor. Environmental Humanities 2020; 12 (1): 227–249.
Caring for soil life in the Anthropocene: The role of attentiveness in more‐than‐human ethics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2019; 00: 1– 15. Open Access
Making knowledge and meaning in communities of practice: What role may science play? The case of sustainable soil management in England. Soil Use Manage. 2019; 35: 160– 168.
With A. Marchesi, G. Toward a Relational Materiality of Soils: Introduction. Environmental Humanities 2020; 12 (1): 190–204
With Salazar, J.F., Granjou, C., Kearnes, M.B., Krzywoszynska, A. and Tironi, M, Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory. 2020; Bloombsbury Academic,
The Politics of Knowledge "Agroecology, regenerative approaches, and Indigenous foodways are pathways to sustainable food systems that remain contested...Decisions about what type of information is collected, researched, or deserves consideration are intrinsically connected to power. Legacies of establishment thinking and colonial mindsets have entrenched hierarchies of knowledge. " Global Alliance for the Future of Food
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