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International Seminar on Biodiversity and Sustainable Development in the Mekong River Basin 5

The techniques for regenerative agriculture include:
 Using organic composts, fertilisers, and bio-amendments.
 Changing crop rotations.
 Incorporating green manure or under-sowing of legumes.
 Encouraging natural biological cycles and nutrient transfer.
 Holistic management.
 Implementing time-controlled planned grazing.
 Using grazing management and animal impact as farm and ecosystem development
tools.
 Retaining stubble or performing biological stubble breakdown.
 Investing in revegetation.
 Constructing interventions in the landscape or waterways to slow or capture the flow
of water.
 Fencing off waterways and implementing water reticulation for stock.
 Pasture cropping.
 Managing for increasing species diversity.
 Reducing or ceasing synthetic chemical inputs
 Integrating enterprises
 Direct drill cropping and pasture sowing.
The benefits are:
 Increased productivity, leading to increased profits.
 Improved soil health – structural, chemical, and biological properties.
 Supporting a diversity of vegetation to moderate temperatures, provide habitat and
build resilience.
 Sequestering greater amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
 Retaining more water in the soil for uptake by plants and animals – extending the
growing season.
 Supporting health and biodiversity in soil microbes.
 Facilitating healthy nutrient cycling.
 Producing more nutrient-rich vegetation and livestock.
 Producing healthier, more nutritious food and livestock, and therefore healthier
people.
 Regenerating, rather than degrading, the natural resource base.
 Building a landscape which is more resilient, especially to climate extremes (such as
flood, drought, and fire), able to recover more quickly.
 Reducing input costs.
 Enabling sustainable production.
 Smoothing out production and profit peaks and troughs.
 Applying techniques that could sustainably feed growing global populations.
With the regenerative agriculture one of the results is the restoring of soil health. For growers, this
means greater yields, the resiliency of the soils to various stresses (droughts and excess moisture),
decreased need for outside input costs (fertilizer and pesticides), and increased profits. For
consumers, increases in soil health led to more nutrient dense foods, a pollinator friendly
environment, wildlife habitats, erosion control, pollution run-off control, and carbon sequestration
through photosynthesis, thus helping to reverse climate change (https://ourgoodbrands.com/what-
is-regenerative-agriculture-why-matters/).

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