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Module 4: Food, Farming, and Enterprises
20 credits
Module 4: Food, Farming, and Enterprises
20 credits
This module examines the design and development of a regenerative food/farm-based enterprise, as a farmer-led activity. It will show how value can be added with innovation when production systems can be linked more directly with consumers. It will identify sources of public or private funding that can help bridge the large gap between producers and consumers locally. It will examine different types of enterprises, the role of market research, and new social media ways of networking.
This module runs concurrent with module 3.
Module aims:
To identify the economic and political feasibility of regenerative enterprises, and barriers to investment.
To develop an understanding of the structure and content of ‘new’ enterprises, and their application to local and food production systems further afield.
To use a whole systems approach to build linkages among social (community), ecological, and commercial domains.
·To examine and research various models of enterprises, including co-operatives, other marketing systems new networks.
To find funding sources that can help invest in an enterprise.
Assessment: 3 x 500 word essay (10 credits), 1 x practical project (15 credits), 1 x 1000 word project rationale and reflection (5 credits)
World
World
Organisations promoting Regenerative farming round the globe
Expanding on the farm-to-closet model in a bid to increase regenerative agriculture in fashion.
Can direct-market vegetable growers make middle class income?
EU
EU
https://www.eitfood.eu/about-eit-food EIT
Creating and scaling-up agrifood startups to deliver new food innovations and businesses
Developing talents and leaders to transform the food system
Launching new innovative products and ingredients to deliver healthier and more sustainable food
Engaging the public so that they can become the agents of change in the food system
UK
UK
Marina O'Connell Dartington
Farming Smarter Food Farming and Countryside Commission "explores the economic argument for regenerative farming "
Celebrating Regenerative Women on the land
Finding beauty in the beast - where farming meets fashion
CASES
CASES
CASH casting the net to find soil organic matter records
Could I regenerate my farm to save the planet
Regenerating 1350 hectares Johnnie Balfour
George Henderson Farming Ladder BBC radio
Exploring supply chain needs ORFC Video
Alice Waters (famous restaurant) 'You talk about how the term “sustainability” has become meaningless as it’s been co-opted by corporations. Instead of sustainability, we should be focusing on regenerative agriculture, which actively reverses climate change. How can an individual support regenerative agriculture?
Carinna Millstone Orchard Project
Groundswell The Regenerative Agriculture Show and Conference June 2021
Ham Street Wines: Regenerative viticulture
"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. "Researchers quantify carbon changes in Sierra Nevada meadows
Brazilian chef regenerates ranch
McCain promises to use regenerative methods "Our belief in regenerative agriculture goes back to our roots as a farm business,”
Hong Kong restaurants support regenerative agriculture.
UK's first carbon neutral potatoes from Pembrokeshire
Beer - 'perfect vehicle for regenerative farming'
A blossoming career as as Soil Keeper
Flour Power Our world’s most complex problem has the simplest solution: food. Fix the food, fix the world.”
How to link regenerative farming and food?
Work out ways to capitalise on new assets by on value adding,
This is achieved by short chains linking healthy soils and healthy diets, doing away with ultra-processed foods (5-% of what UK eats)
Eat more home grown food and cave of cheap food imports
"The per-acre subsidy is now to be replaced by a more grant-based system (Mod 3). Grant-based systems need forms, inspection and contributions to cost. Large farms will adjust, although almost certainly prices will rise. However, tenant farmers will be particularly hard hit, especially those without capital to invest in land they don’t own, and in areas of marginal viability. "
Possible project....'Create online grant forms for small farmers..
Pioneers
Pioneers
Regenerative Agriculture - how scaleable is it?
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.
'No Till' driving machinery costs down
Trees on free range poultry farm
Net Zero. Buy 1/2lb mycelium balls and capture carbon
We dont follow a capitalist grow-grow-grow model Cairngorms
US
US
US Soil Health laws - tracker for over 100 laws.
Documentary on family's transition to RA
Why Regenerative Agriculture cannot grow today Thorston "Southwestern Ontario seems to have another main barrier: Land speculation that leads to short-term land rental. Whereas regenerative transitioning requires long-term access security to land. In short, farmers stated that the regenerative farming option has become pretty irrelevant here because it only applies to a few highly privileged heirs. The rest cannot risk the transition on rented land, or is preparing for selling land due to retirement to international bidders. "
"I completely agree with you Thorsten. Land as an escalating commodity is a huge issue for the regenerative movement and we need to address ways to make it accessible to those who have the mindset to restore it. This needs to be more of a focus for us all." ANANDA FITZSIMMONS
Présidente du conseil d'administration/President of the Board of Directors regenerationcanada.org
Land to Market "When you see the Land to Market verification seal on products in the marketplace, you can know that product came from land that is verified as regenerating."
King Arthur start on long road to regenerative agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis
"At Textile Exchange, we believe that a transition to regenerative agriculture is fundamental to the long-term health of the fashion and textile industry, playing a key role in helping farmers develop more resilient systems. But with interest in regenerative agriculture fast gaining momentum, there is no one-size-fits-all approach, and the concept is nuanced. Regenerative agriculture is about much more than increasing soil carbon levels "
Regenerative Agriculture can make farmers stewards of the land again.
Farmer uptake
Farmer uptake
Factors affecting farmers' uptake
"How do farmers approach carbon sequestration?" study. "the changes they make have to fit the whole farm and not just a "carbon farming certification scheme".
betsy@breakthroughstrategiesandsolutions.com "Studies have shown that farmers learn best from other farmers who have already demonstrated success, including those with improved quality of life. Innovative farmer networks and training programs have helped with shifting practices, including groups like Soil Health Academy, NOFA, MOFGA, CASA Future Harvest, Quivera Coalition, Wolfe's Neck Farm, Land Stewardship Project,White Buffalo Land Trust, Rodale, Savanna Institute, Horn Farm Center, Kiss the Ground, Mad Agriculture, Adelante Mujeres, Carbon Cycle Institute, Paicines Ranch, Fibershed, National Center for Appropriate Technology, and many forward thinking Resource and Soil Conservation Districts. This is a US list and there are many others, though I don't think we have long termanalysis of how many farmers are shifting and for what precise reasons.Yale's efforts to better understand the reasons farmers change includes market demand and reform of crop insurance, among other things". The short version is: people get pushed into changing their behavior by some kind of breaking point. Sometimes it is personal (quality of life like you mention, industrial production can be a very anxiety-inducing line of work to be in), sometimes there are material constraints in one's life that force them to find a better solution than what they've been doing.
I tend to explain this as a result of the larger global capitalist system being in the process of slow collapse, which means parts of it stop working for people. When things stop working within the mainstream system, people are forced to find alternative ways of doing things. One example that might help explain what I mean: industrial global capitalism has made it so that people in certain parts of inner-cities basically live in food deserts. This is a failure of the system to meet a certain population's needs has forced them to begin self-producing food. So now you see things like agri-hoods in places like Detroit. The theory I think best explains what is happening here is Dual Process:
Hope this helps and this is my favorite topic so I am happy to discuss it more! Ashley Colby Fitzgerald ashley@rizomafieldschool.com
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