Ariel, excellent newsletter! Science magazine highlights that regenerative agriculture's soil carbon storage may be overstated, potentially overhyping carbon credits. Despite this, as I am working with farmers in France, I support it as a new revenue source from private institutions. It's not a complete climate solution, but its a great example that private funding can really have a positive impact.
Looking forward to read your next newsletter, maybe something about the industry policies? :)
Very interesting read! You touched on a really important point here that sustainability is not just about environmental outcomes. You can't have a truly sustainable solution without considering social and economic outcomes as well - farmers have to be able to make a living! Also completely agree that farmers can be some of the best long-term thinkers you'll meet
Excuse me? The conventional agrabusiness participants with their toxic from input to product industrial method is a a member of the intellectually laziest demographic in America. They don’t know anything about soil or food. The two topics that are present to the moniker.
Nice piece, Ariel. My education in this space has been swift and deep, a result of reading through extensive amounts of source material, like you, and talking to a range of experts. The internal industry logic of what is happening has become a lot clearer to me in the last months, and it can explain some of the strange nuances/idiosyncracies you point out. We should exchange notes some time!
Incredibly, these people and companies that have never farmed a single acre and never will are telling farmers how to farm. Not one of them has ever produced any food, ZERO. But all know how the farmer should farm his land. The whole discussion is just unbelievable.
Perhaps a more helpful reframe from “These people are telling farmers how to farm!!!” is that in our market system, there is demand (from consumers, employees, society, etc.) and some segment of farmers will seek to supply that demand. The farmers I recently spoke with in Illinois certainly fit into that bucket, but are looking for ways to reduce the financial burden and risk to meet that demand. This article is about one potential source of funding (businesses making sustainability commitments) to help farmers make changes in their farms that they wanted to make to meet market demand in the first place.
Ariel, excellent newsletter! Science magazine highlights that regenerative agriculture's soil carbon storage may be overstated, potentially overhyping carbon credits. Despite this, as I am working with farmers in France, I support it as a new revenue source from private institutions. It's not a complete climate solution, but its a great example that private funding can really have a positive impact.
Looking forward to read your next newsletter, maybe something about the industry policies? :)
https://www.science.org/content/article/farmers-paid-millions-trap-carbon-soils-will-it-actually-help-planet
Thanks for sharing Mano! And very cool to hear about your work with farmers in France!
Very interesting read! You touched on a really important point here that sustainability is not just about environmental outcomes. You can't have a truly sustainable solution without considering social and economic outcomes as well - farmers have to be able to make a living! Also completely agree that farmers can be some of the best long-term thinkers you'll meet
Thanks Max! Totally - without the economic and social pieces in place, any solution will be short-lived
Excuse me? The conventional agrabusiness participants with their toxic from input to product industrial method is a a member of the intellectually laziest demographic in America. They don’t know anything about soil or food. The two topics that are present to the moniker.
A farmer produces food. Not commodities.
Nice piece, Ariel. My education in this space has been swift and deep, a result of reading through extensive amounts of source material, like you, and talking to a range of experts. The internal industry logic of what is happening has become a lot clearer to me in the last months, and it can explain some of the strange nuances/idiosyncracies you point out. We should exchange notes some time!
Incredibly, these people and companies that have never farmed a single acre and never will are telling farmers how to farm. Not one of them has ever produced any food, ZERO. But all know how the farmer should farm his land. The whole discussion is just unbelievable.
Hi Mark,
Perhaps a more helpful reframe from “These people are telling farmers how to farm!!!” is that in our market system, there is demand (from consumers, employees, society, etc.) and some segment of farmers will seek to supply that demand. The farmers I recently spoke with in Illinois certainly fit into that bucket, but are looking for ways to reduce the financial burden and risk to meet that demand. This article is about one potential source of funding (businesses making sustainability commitments) to help farmers make changes in their farms that they wanted to make to meet market demand in the first place.