Regenerative agriculture is a climate-friendly farming method focused on improving soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem services while maintaining or increasing agricultural productivity. Quantitative surveys in several agroecological zones demonstrate that regenerative practices (cover cropping, reduced tillage, crop diversity, organic amendments, and integrated livestock) lead to statistically significant performance in building up 3/4 particularly the indicators: soil organic carbon (SOC), crop yield, water use efficiency (WUE), and biodiversity indexs. Results indicate that the regenerative systems increase SOC 18.4% (± 3.2%) relative to conventional practices over a 5-year period. Crop yields remain constant or become greater in 74% of regenerative systems, with an average increase of 7.6% (± 2.1%) for rainfed growing systems. Mentioned practices lead to 21.7% (± 4.5%) increase of WUE. Biodiversity as measured by Shannon's index increases by about 32% in regenerative plots. The specifics of digital agriculture through remote sensing, IoT soil monitoring, variable rate application, and AI decision support systems will only accentuate these findings. Digital farms can see an extra 12% increase in SOC and 9.4 per cent in input efficiency compared to traditional regenerative farms. These combined approaches drive the optimised resource utilisation, enhanced environmental sustainability and bottom line improvement. The synergy between regenerative and digital agriculture is a scalable model for sustainable intensification that can help ensure food security, climate resilience, and carbon capture. This integrated model provides a strong and viable pathway for the world's agriculture as it contends with the twin pressures of environmental degradation and increasing food demand, to move to more sustainable and regenerative food systems.

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Regenerative Agriculture

  • Muhammad Yousaf Raza,
  • Mukhtar Ahmad,
  • Ghulam Qadir,
  • Salman Ikram,
  • Shakeel Ahmad,
  • Amjad Malik

摘要

Regenerative agriculture is a climate-friendly farming method focused on improving soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem services while maintaining or increasing agricultural productivity. Quantitative surveys in several agroecological zones demonstrate that regenerative practices (cover cropping, reduced tillage, crop diversity, organic amendments, and integrated livestock) lead to statistically significant performance in building up 3/4 particularly the indicators: soil organic carbon (SOC), crop yield, water use efficiency (WUE), and biodiversity indexs. Results indicate that the regenerative systems increase SOC 18.4% (± 3.2%) relative to conventional practices over a 5-year period. Crop yields remain constant or become greater in 74% of regenerative systems, with an average increase of 7.6% (± 2.1%) for rainfed growing systems. Mentioned practices lead to 21.7% (± 4.5%) increase of WUE. Biodiversity as measured by Shannon's index increases by about 32% in regenerative plots. The specifics of digital agriculture through remote sensing, IoT soil monitoring, variable rate application, and AI decision support systems will only accentuate these findings. Digital farms can see an extra 12% increase in SOC and 9.4 per cent in input efficiency compared to traditional regenerative farms. These combined approaches drive the optimised resource utilisation, enhanced environmental sustainability and bottom line improvement. The synergy between regenerative and digital agriculture is a scalable model for sustainable intensification that can help ensure food security, climate resilience, and carbon capture. This integrated model provides a strong and viable pathway for the world's agriculture as it contends with the twin pressures of environmental degradation and increasing food demand, to move to more sustainable and regenerative food systems.