Approaches to Food and Farming Sustainability

In principle, a truly sustainable agriculture system would be able continue indefinitely into the future without degrading its resource base. Since we — humanity — have already done a huge amount of damage to the world’s farmlands and soils, we need more than just sustainable agriculture, we need to create a regenerative farming system that builds soils, fixes carbon, and increases bioproductivity and diversity.

If we apply our ecological understanding of the carrying capacity and evolutionary dynamics of ecosystems, to the question what would a sustainable or regenerative agriculture system look like, we would pay attention to its resource base and how it is regenerate through natural cycles and closed loops. What is the resource base of an agricultural system?

Read Daniel Christian Wahl’s Medium story - “Approaches to Food and Farming Sustainability.”