{"product_id":"the-regenerative-agriculture-solution-a-revolutionary-approach-to-building-soil-creating-climate-resilience-and-supporting-human-and-planetary-heal-paperback","title":"The Regenerative Agriculture Solution: A Revolutionary Approach to Building Soil, Creating Climate Resilience, and Supporting Human and Planetary Heal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndré Leu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRonnie Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVandana Shiva\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Read this book to understand why you should care about regenerative agriculture. Until the public is better-informed and insists on sweeping changes to current agricultural policy . . . we will continue to degrade our planet and destabilize our climate. Leu and Cummins, through inspiring stories and solid science, show just how quickly we could turn that around.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Allan Savory, president, Savory Institute; chairman, Africa Centre for Holistic\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eManagement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it possible that the solution to the global climate emergency lies in a \"waste\" agricultural product? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe best-kept secret in today's world is that solutions to some of our most pressing issues--food insecurity, deforestation, overgrazing, water scarcity, rural poverty, forced migration--lie in adopting, improving, and scaling up organic and regenerative agriculture best practices. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Regenerative Agriculture Solution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e starts with the story of how two brothers--Jose and Gilberto Flores--are at the leading edge of this approach, pioneering the use of the previously discarded leaves of the prodigious agave plant to regenerate agricultural soils, reduce erosion, and improve water capture. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Ronnie Cummins, the cofounder of Organic Consumer Association (OCA) and Regeneration International, met the Flores brothers in 2019 and witnessed their revolutionary agave agroforestry system, he knew they were onto something important. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cummins had spent decades studying the potential and pitfalls of organic and regenerative agriculture and knew best practices when he saw them. He started to write a book about Flores's brother and other visionary people, such as Dr Vandana Shiva, Allan Savory, and John Liu, who started landscape-scale regeneration projects. The scientific data was even more convincing, suggesting that these projects--and others like it--could revolutionize how we understand the climate catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sadly, Cummins passed away in April 2023, in the midst of working on the book. Not to leave this work unfinished, Ronnie's widow and OCA cofounder, Rose, called on their friend, colleague, and collaborator, Regeneration International's cofounder Andr? 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Cummins also served on the steering committee of Regeneration International and OCA's Mexican affiliate, Vía Orgánica. He was the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Truth About COVID-19\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eGrassroots Rising \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGenetically Engineered Food\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndré Leu\u003c\/strong\u003e is the International Director of Regeneration International, an organization he cofounded in 2015 with Dr. Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins, Dr. Hans Herren, and Steve Rye, and which has now grown to 540 partners in 75 countries, advancing projects in agroecology, permaculture, AMP grazing, agroforestry, and biological, organic, and ecological agriculture. Dr. Leu holds a Doctor of Science in Environmental and Agricultural Systems and is an Adjunct Professor of regenerative agriculture at South Seas University. 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Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers', peasants', and women's rights, she is the author and editor of a score of influential books, among them \u003cem\u003eOneness vs. the 1%\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMaking Peace with the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSoil Not Oil\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGlobalization's New Wars\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSeed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWho Really Feeds the World?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShiva is the recipient of over twenty international awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (1998); the Horizon 3000 Award (Austria, 2001); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); the Save the World Award (2009); the Sydney Peace Prize (2010); the Calgary Peace Prize (2011); and the Thomas Merton Award (2011). 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