Is the solution to climate change in soil?
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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Is the solution to climate change in soil? Industrial farming and intensive animal grazing have led to soil degradation, erosion, and desertification. What if, instead, small-scale agriculture could feed the world whilst also allowing biodiversity to thrive?
In this second episode of our video series on regenerative agriculture, we share how soil management practices like crop rotation, Allan Savory’s rotational animal grazing, and agroforestry all influence soil fertility and food production -- and whether these regenerative farming methods can be scaled and reverse climate change.
#RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #Documentary
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Produced and directed by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Written by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic) & Ceri Flook
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Cinematography by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati) & Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
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Excellent video. Soil degradation worldwide is growing rampant, and without healthy soil, well, ecosystems can´t survive. Thanks Ecosia for this work.
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Soil is life.
It's amzing that Ecosia works with sustainable agriculture. THANK YOU. Hope this can increase with the actions of each of us and your help and example!
Its more then just sustainable, its regenerative agriculture you get more than just sustaining
Commenting so that everybody can watch this video.
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I'm happy that Ecosia is covering regenerative agriculture, not just tree planting! Covering more than one topic means they care!
I might need to watch this video twice because of how packed full it is with information! I absolutely love this new series, it's vital that more people know about how industrial farming is harming the planet and how there are better options for both the land and the people involved! Thank you for making these fantastic videos to help educate others Ecosia team!
Some good ideas, some reputable farmes, a lot of misinformation if not lies. It's unfortunate. There are better sources of information, it take more than 14 minutes to understand how farming works but at least then you can make informed decisions as a customer
@@Darynifiction I've watched (and tasted) in horror as the food supply has steadily degraded throughout my life, with more and more products making more and more people sick. With some exceptions of course. Even industrial "organic" greens from the big farms in Cali aren't good, presumably because their soil health is poor. Hemp seeds (hemp hearts) are one of the main things keeping me healthy. That's an example of a field monocrop that *can* feed the world. It used to. And livestock would graze on hemp growing in pastures.
Cali as in California? if you are american yes, I hear your food is allowed to have straight on carcinogen ingredients banned in Europe. Producing High quality food isn't impossible, but it's almost impossible on large scale. If the prices are kept very low to the farmers, they need to get bigger, automatize the job and so on. Good quality food costs a lot, because it requires a lot of working hours. If you have 100 acres of biological whatever, and you can choose between a variety that need herbicides/pesticides or a lot of manual labor, or a less tasty lower quality plant that is more hardy and you can weed mechanically with the tractor, you are gonna choose for the lower quality ones. It is a stupid example but is just a semplification of the choices farmers have to make to have a margin. Most people are used to very cheap food, and aren't ready to spend more for higher quality foods.
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Agreed
I recently watched a Netflix film called Kiss The Ground. It talks about regenerative agriculture and the impacts of traditional agriculture.
I hope regeneration will spread across America and the world.
Thanks! Added it to my watchlist.
there is a very good documentation on Netflix about soil. it is called "Eat the Ground".
PS: everyone should use Ecosia! keep going
do you mean "kiss the ground"?
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Nothing wrong with constructive criticism
Humans are destroying the air, land and water we need to survive.
We need to be better care takers of the planet.
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I hope more people get to see this information
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This is such an eye-opening video. I still have not graduated as a Horticulturist yet but it's topics and videos like these that inspire me so much to combat global warming. Bless our farmers.
“Global warming” is and always has been a lie to tax everyone and maintain psychopathic corporate hegemony ever since it was ‘invented’ by the Club of Rome in their 1976 publication ‘Limits to Growth’. This doesn’t mean that humans haven’t had and continue to have a profoundly deleterious effect on their environment, but this has been shoehorned into a form of dogmatism in the form of the concept of “climate change”. Plus there is nothing wrong with carbon dioxide, the planes lives on it as this video suggests - plant more trees 😀
If you are going to graduate as a horticulurist, could you enlight me on the nutrients requirements of the common vegetables, and how to produce compost enought in a regenerative, cheap way without importing fertility from the bad bad industial farmers? How many acres of grass do you have to chop to produce the 15/20 tones of finished compost you need for an acre of vegetables, in a way the the practice is regenerative on the grass land as well?
@@Darynifiction That’s pretty specific. The classes I’ve taken at NYBG haven’t covered those topics. But hey, maybe once I’ve become experienced, I’ll return with an answer!
@@believedragons_ Well, I'm just a farmer, i mostly don't use fertilizers, but as an idealistic teenager, I crushed myself into the reality of managing fertility many years ago. Improvements can be done, but everything is really expansive, and I think that smarter people than me could have done a much better job in the video, with some accurate informations. I hope I didn't sound aggressive, English is my 4th language. Good luck with your studies
the oxford study completely ignored soil methanotrophs - microbes that capture methane from cattle manure and incorporate it into soil organic matter
Great video!
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I’ve been waiting for this part for a while lol and can’t wait for the next one! Thank you for doing all you can for our planet!💚
Let's go, everything you do is infused with so much hope and its desperately needed
I LOVE that Ecosia has adapted regenerative agriculture as an approach to solving the world’s climate issues. As someone who can only afford at the moment a balcony garden, I desperately yearn for the day I can get my hands on some land so that I can begin exploring restoring the ground and increase its biodiversity potential.
I'm planning to study regenerative agriculture at university! Really looking forward to it:)
My local college in Chico, CA USA is a world leader. Look up CRARS at Chico State University.
I don't understand the avversion towards synthetic fertilizers. Nutrient cycles are clear; while nitrogen can be fixed by leguminouses (actually the correct name of the family is Fabaceae today) from the air, more immobile elements (Potassium, Phosphorous) need an input equal to that contained in the exported produce. How are we gonna put those elements back in?
Since we are talking scalability, that needs to be considered.
The answer should be reusing human waste (poop) but that comes with a lot of problems.
(I'm assuming "synthetic fertilizers" is being used as a broad term including fertilizers coming from non-renewable mineral deposits)
I am no expert by any means, but my understanding is the nitrogen is one of the main problems in fertilizer, and selectively adding other elements (as necessary only) is still allowable if done very carefully. Excess nitrogen fertilizer, particularly in combination with phosphorus, can become runoff that leads to dead zones due to eutrophication (long story short - they cause an algae overgrowth that depletes the oxygen in water until it is mostly uninhabitable). However, adding limited amounts of other nutrients, especially if there are ways to reduce runoff (e.g. not adding when rainstorms are expected) may have a role in making soil healthy again.
Don’t worry, human waste is properly composted before being put back on farm fields. And the seafood in our diets ensures there’s a new supply of elements to combat dispersion from the farmland to the surrounding environment ;)
@@randomname9798 Cool I like that thought about seafood!
From my understanding the problem with human waste is mainly that it's collected from sewages, where a lot of other stuff (drugs, cosmetics, occasional rubbish...) end up. Also I believe I heard something about heavy metals because of biomagnification.
compost is more efficient. throwing green and organic waste into landfill, while extracting minerals through mining and using oil to capture nitrogen, is extremely wasteful
@@Liloldliz Agreed. My point was that in a closed cycle you can't maintain fertility only by using crop residues, because the nutrients in the consumed produce are not recoverable (unless you use human waste). Of coruse this is not a problem nowadays since you can get compost outside of your farm since it's not high in demand. But since we're talking scalability, if everyone were to use it, it wouldn't work out. I understand I'm nitpicking here.
Would growing more food ourselves at home make much of a difference in this?
Sure it would, growing stuff at home is a great idea, if you do it right, you can get a lot of food from a plot of land, a warning though, if you grow stuff like tomatoes, be prepared for possibly more produce than you can handle, great fun, but also there’s been many a time I’ve had a bunch of stuff spoil from not being eaten
Yes
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I would just call it Sustainable crop growing etc, because Animal Agriculture is using the term Regenerative Agriculture. To try and dupe people into thinking it is ok for the environment to keep using animals and their secretions as food!. Also I’m a bit surprised to not see or hear Forest Gardening/Permaculture being the examples mentioned, of Sustainable crop growing.
Permaculture projects usually have insignificant food output, primarily because they are designed for ecology and a nice life, not output.
@@aenorist2431 Not true, Permaculture is primarily about maximising food production on a permanent basis, using Self seeding, perennial plants, that minimises human input! Same with Forest Gardening, it’s about providing max food per Acre, self perpetuating/Sustaining systems, that are almost entirely ( if not entirely) non dig!.
@@aenorist2431 An empty channel as usual, probably a Bot,
@@Kiyarose3999 agreed!
@@Kiyarose3999 Permaculture Seems great since its both Great Imput and Less impact Than Conventional Farming
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I've been thinking about this for a while.
Do these farmers have a lower carbon footprint than conventional ag? Probably.
Do they have a positive impact on their communities? Definitely!
But please stop demonizing the agricultural industry. People like to believe that conventional agriculture is stuck in the '60s. It improved, though. For example in regards to soil compaction and conservation, fertilizer dosage and distribution over time, pesticides quantity and kind. And it is still improving (for example conservative ag is getting more and more common, and one of its goals is to increase soil organic matter), so I wish people worked towards that, instead of creating new dycotomies and generalizing. That's the best way to have a decent impact the environment considering the area of land affected.
There is work to do especially in developing countries, where farming practices need improvements (often residue burning is common, for instance) and the legislation is less inclined to ban dangerous pesticides. That's where I would expect and want Ecosia to act as a NGO. But I understand that would be a daunting task.
To sum this up. I'm all for Ecosia supporting small farmers doing their best for the environment. But putting conventional ag in a light worse than it deserves, scaring people away from it, in my opinion is going to be harmful in the long run.
The one thing I've come to understand is this modern adage: if you want to see if cutting edge technology will be adopted, look to farmers.
Great video, clear and easy to understand!
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I just had two wildfires burn in very close proximity from where I live, with one being a mile away. This was in December. This never happens. Keep doing your great work Ecosia, we can stop this!
Things like this always work best when there’s an incentive, and I can see there definitely is one.
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Chad permaculture vs. Virgin Industrial monocultures
thank you for showing how we don't need livestock to regenerate the soil. We can do it veganically through plants only! The wildlife that comes with it replaces any livestock.
I hope our scientist found specific trees that produce more oxygen to help our mother Earth recover. #supportecosia
I’m currently taking Richard Perkins master class on regenerative farming, he’s a great teacher!
Regenerative farming is great, but I have several concerns about it.
1) Can it be used to produce grains to a similar yield as other farming methods?
2) How do you keep bugs from ravaging crops?
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone talk about regenerative agriculture without using animals. I'm glad it can be done, and I hope more people learn about it.
Big Thank you to all of the brilliant farmers that are leading this revolution! And thank you Ecosia for being apart of the whole.
So in the last minute, the real bottleneck is briefly mentioned: too few farmers. What is the required labor-to-food ratio compared to industrial farming?
Quite amazing that this "question" still needs to be posed ... of course they can, and the fact that needs explaining shows the horrific power of the industrial-'food' (read garbage) propaganda machine.
I think it's a fair question since we haven't been showed footage of grains, for example
Thank you very much. I learned a lot🙂
Same dude
We are stoked and honored to be a part of this!
Awesome video 👍
One more amazing impact of rebuilding our soils is the ability to store more water in the ground, along with filtering it.
The water cycle is only going to get more and more intensified with periods of drought, and then heavy rains. We need to capture as much rain as possible during the heavy rains to keep it on the ground replenishing aquifers and growing plants!
That's why I started my perennial food forest in my back yard which is expanding to the front! In Louisiana many wood chips go to dumps due to lack of demand and over saturation of supply during our many storm events. You can have chips diverted to your property as a base for a food forest or garden, and it will build dirt, retain/filter water, deter pests, along with many other benefits!
Keep up the great work everyone, we can do this!
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The regenerative agriculture movement is one of the only subjects that makes me happy lately.
Revisiting the video, this is outstanding research and work by Ecosia, this should go mainstream. Helping a little with this comment.😉
To quote one of my favourite fictional characters:
"A small difference is better than no difference at."
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Water is life. Not soil. Healthy soil holds a lot of moisture and regenerative farming is excellent. We need much more of it. However, the importance and necessity of water cannot be overstated. Look at Day Zero and the world water crisis. These issues all go hand in hand with current climate problems. It would be great if you did a video on the intersecting properties and benefits of regenerative farming on local water supplies! :)
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Interesting, well explained and very informative, as usual. Happy that Ecosia exists and enthusiastically supporting you by doing most of my searches via Ecosia!
It's nice to get to hear people speaking in their language without a voice-over, but to each their own. A nice multi-lingual video!
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Now I want to try this out and work at a regenerative farm for some time. Thank you, Ecosia, for this educative video!!
Check out Richard Perkins! the gent in the video
@@gabesmith5570 i will, thank you!
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Excellent video. Soil degradation worldwide is growing rampant, and without healthy soil, well, ecosystems can´t survive. Thanks Ecosia for this work. All the best xoxo
Thank you Ecosia.
It hurts so much to see all the solutions right there, all the explanations for why it would be better, why xyz wouldn’t be a problem and just… it’s not yet implemented. I want everyone to be onboard with this. I want to see this as the future! 😭 Thank you for working on it so we might get there one day.
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Well done by supporting regenerative agriculture you are helping to stamp out more and more big ag's destructive methods.
Comment for the algorithm! Great work, Ecosia, and to all your partners, too. Truly inspiring.
A brilliant video, it was really interesting to see how changes can make such a big impact. I had some knowledge of this subject, but this video has really opened my eyes. I have been making small changes a home for the past 18 months, but my goal for 2022 is to drastically cut down the amount of meat my family and I eat. We all need to make changes and fast!
A list on concrete todo's or steps for everyone of us to make this aggriculture shift happen would have been nice and something I would love to see in the next video :)
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Great informative documentary Ecosia, thanks!
The video actually Has context
For all those who don't know Dw the German public broadcast service made a documentary about Ecosia called Rethinking Capitalism...
Okay, so what I'm getting at here is that I got an epic garden. But if I really am getting this right, a farm that grows things like pomegranates, oranges, beans corn and tomatoes all on one plot of land is a better solution to mainstream farming? Or does this general idea of regenerative agriculture involve using native plants in these farms as well? And on another note, should we reduce the amount of seasonal crops like tomatoes and cucumbers in general, or would they be useful as compost when their season is over?
You finally got to the issue at the end! You need to find people willing to do the hard work of regenerative farming. Not until we get hungry or sick enough will we place a true value on food worth eating.
I love how this debunks the myth that livestock regenerate the land when they're responsible for destroying land through overgrazing and destroying ecology underneath the soil by their hooves.
Livestock CAN help regenerate the land, because some ecosystems stand to benefit from the way large migrating herbivores impact the soil and plant life (though it has to be said these roles are better filled by the native animals adapted to live off the land)
However, regenerative grazing practices are in a whole other ballpark than commercial livestock grazing. Unless someone sets out with the express purpose of protecting the environment or the herd is sufficiently small, livestock do more harm than good
@@mynamejeff3545 I did my research and really any 'benefit' that livestock does at the same time causes much damage.
So what I meant is that yes, they can repair land to some degree, but they also cause other damage at the same time that overall they're causing damage. That's why it doesn't work - to me.
I think we both agree here - that they do something, but is not sufficient and best done by wildlife. Otherwise you'll have a different species bringing in life that serves them and without a watchful eye can take over. There's too many cases of livestock becoming invasive.
For instance (making up the numbers) 5% good and 50% extra damage means they did do some restoration, but isn't worth it in the end.
People interested in regen ag might also find interest in this film we made recently for the H3 Consortium - ua-cam.com/video/4q26FkaVjtY/v-deo.html
Yes, let's make this mainstream
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The song at the end is good.
I was thinking about which workforce we could use that we don't have to pay much and three groups of people came to mind, prisoners, students and refugees. You get those working the fields growing crops by hand tending them by hand then all three groups get to work in a stress reducing environment learning real life skills that can help them get a job after they are back to being productive members of society and those people can be worked according to their ability. Prisoners can work with plants making food to sell and earn some money, Students in public schools as well on top of getting work experience and getting a few hours or days out of the classroom and lastly refugees whom are escaping from wherever having to deal with whatever they were running from plants and nature are the same wherever they are from, making plants grow and making produce for consumption can serve as a mental aid and it will be good skills for when they go back and need to grow food back home. We need manpower to scale this kind of agriculture and for that we need to change the public's perception on farming. Getting back in touch with the plants even against their own will might be a great first step to reeducate people about farming and growing their own food locally.
I don't think we should go back to an agrarian society of small farmers. I believe in decentralized farming where people grow in vertical farms indoors at home and whatever plants they're done with, take with them outside to continue growing forever. 0 waste, circular, 0 maintenance. I really would love to see a video on that by Ecosia. We don't need to worry about losing knowledge, but gaining new knowledge instead.
So how do you think people will get their food if there isnt a large population of people farming? The so society we live in which relies on tons of resources to be used in order to transit goods will not exist forever… Regenerative agriculture encompasses less outputs and more inputs. It’s using the land to it’s maximum potential. Vertical farming doesn’t regenerate the land.
@@gabesmith5570 vertical farming allows the land to be rewilded. Also vertical farming can work if you grow wild, native plants to plant back in the soil. It's actually the best tool we have for regenerating the land. The only thing better is if we do space farming and that's vertical - like inside an o'neill cylinder for instance.
We have to separate our food eating from the environment, because it's not natural and so the environment gives way to us. Vertical farming creates a barrier to start the process of separation.
@@gabesmith5570 you have to realize that in the future, everyone should be farming. It would be agriculture/agrarian society 2.0 - it just would be automated at home. I'm just advocating against going back to a time where people would do agriculture for their job - we shouldn't increase that. We should have people keeping up with technological progress. But everyone should be farming for their own food in a decentralized manner - just not as their job.
@@extropiantranshuman Given how crammed many large cities are I feel that such an approach is unrealistic. The space required for growing food for a single human is larger than the average apartment in a developed city.
@@KarlosEPM when I grew food I grew it in a 1 ft x 1ft space and had enough food to feed not only me but my whole neighborhood. It wasn't even stacked - just one layer. Not sure what you're thinking, but it doesn't sound liek you grew food indoors before with nutrient dense plants.
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It seems clear that the agricultural sector needs a massive shake up.
Amazing content. Thanks for sharing.
Great video as always. Kinda makes me wish I could start a new little environmentally friendly farm.
Way back when Socolow did his wedge analysis of carbon reductions, one of his "wedges" of emissions avoided was conservation tillage (low/no till solutions) which is a core principle of these regenerative agriculture/permaculture systems. That wedge analysis is over 2 decades old. (It also had funding from BP and ford. I think that explains why some of the are techno-optimistic and don't target grid decarbonisation that well)
But conservation tillage still is super important in decarbonising agriculture. Don't want to discredit that.
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Whenever I see worms in my soil I immediately say "oh HI BUDDY" because I know for a fact that the soil is the best it can be.
not really related, but I am from around pheonix, and I can't set up my own garden. When summer comes around, everything dies, kinda like opposite day.
Wonderful video.
excellent video. we need better food systems for the health of humans and the planet.
A lot of good information in this clip .A pity you spoiled it with anti livestock bias. Livestock are an important part of any regenerative system. They are on this earth to manage grasslands and turn inedible cellulose into high quality nutrient dense food. They are a vital part of the marginal land ecoligy and economy.
Too bad they emit methane while doing so
watch dominion
Animals are not on this earth for anything. Regenerating grasslands can better be left to the native large grazers who have adapted perfectly to the ecosystem, instead of bringing in livestock which could do more harm than good.
"Regenerative agriculture" turns into "overgrazing to meet livestock production demands" awfully quick, because people see the animals as nothing more than meat machines instead of what they should be used as: temporary tools to replace human labor in restoring damaged ecosystems for the purpose of rewilding. That's the only instances where it has a positive effect.
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Yes! I want to be a Regenerative farmer :)