Episode 80: Joe Fassler on Regenerative Agriculture’s Reckoning
Regenerative agriculture is all the rage, with progressive farmers, NGOs and multinational corporations laying claim to a wide variety of ecological, climate-friendly farming practices. But without changing the basic power dynamics, ownership and political economy of the food system, does regenerative even matter?
Joe Fassler is the Deputy Editor of The Counter, a leading source of investigative journalism in the food sector. Joe’s original long form piece on the topic is here: https://thecounter.org/regenerative-agriculture-racial-equity-climate-change-carbon-farming-environmental-issues/.
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Episode #80 Notes
1:00 - Reckoning and Regenerative Agriculture article overview
6:05 - Regenerative Organic Certification and other ways in which we define regenerative.
21:45 - On racial justice and equity in regenerative agriculture.
30:00 - What should we do to help shift the meaning of regenerative agriculture.
34:00 - Further readings:
Farm (and Other F Words), Sarah Mock
Dispossession, Pete Daniel
