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Can Regenerative Agriculture support food security and diet goals?

Working in partnership with TABLE as part of the Reckoning with Regeneration project, Food Foundation have developed a briefing paper exploring the possible implications of regenerative agriculture for diets and food security.

Job: Resource Development Manager, Agroecology Fund, Remote

The Agroecology Fund is seeking an experienced and mission-aligned Resource Development Manager to join our global, remote team. This full-time role leads fundraising strategy, donor relationships, proposals, and reporting to help sustain and grow support for agroecology movements worldwide.What we are looking for:A mid-level professional with 10+ years in the development sector, 5+ years in fundraising/resource development, experience with philanthropic donors, strong writing and project management skills, familiarity with agroecology, and comfort working in multicultural settings. English plus French or Spanish required.

Funding: 2026 Rural Regeneration Storytelling Project, USA

This program seeks 12 Midwest rural land stewards to share powerful stories of Reciprocity, Resilience, or Love as Stewardship on their land.Each participant will receive a $4,000 stipend and support to produce at least three storytelling outputs (e.g., media, community events, photo essays) between March-November 2026, alongside a supportive peer community.Climate Land Leaders is part of a working group of climate and agriculture organizations that want to support you in sharing your story. Read more about the initiative here. Applicants are invited to apply for a grant by rooting their work within one or more of the following themes:Reciprocity - Description: Your story explores the give and take between people, land, animals, and past and future generations. Showcase what reciprocity looks like in your daily life or community practices. How do you care for the land and how does the land care for you?Resilience - Description: With multiple, intersecting crises at our door, how are you building land-based resilience in your work, your communities, and your livelihoods? Highlight the hopeful, practical work you are doing to build resilience so you and future generations can thrive. Highlight how you are restoring soil, water, and ecological health, rebuilding community networks, or tending to the wellbeing of neighbors who are harmed by unjust systems. How are you rebalancing relationships disrupted by extraction, colonization, or climate change?Love as Stewardship - Description: This theme invites you to share the story of what you love most about your land, your community, or your place — and what you’re doing to protect it. Show us what’s at stake and what you are fighting for, tending to, or nurturing. How does love become a force for stewardship, protection, and action?How the mini grant program works:You develop a storytelling project with our support, to be implemented March through November, 2026. We will work with you to develop a project that energizes you, achieves your goals and uses the storytelling strategies you’re most interested in. This will include having a storytelling focus, identifying audiences you want to reach, developing messages you want to share and reaching your audiences with your messages.We will fund your project with a mini grant of $3,500 – think of this as a storytelling salary in recognition of your time, energy and knowledge used to develop and implement your project. We will also provide an additional $500 for project expenses you may have, like travel, food for an in-person event, etc.We will offer support along the way, including access to current science on the impacts of agriculture on climate, tips for communicating about climate action, feedback on messages and written pieces, support reaching out to local and regional media outlets, and other technical support identified during your project. We also offer our organizations’ platforms for amplifying your story to broader audiences.If accepted, you commit to the following: A virtual project kick-off in March to meet the cohort of fellow storytellers (60 minutes)Monthly 1:1 planning meetings/project check-ins (30 minutes each)2-3 virtual meetings/workshops with other storytellers (90 minutes each). Topics may include media training and storytellingA virtual project wrap-up and feedback session (60 minutes)At least 3 (three) outputs (examples include: media coverage, op-ed published, host a community gathering, podcast, photo exhibit, etc.)We estimate your time expenditure over the course of the project to average 5 hours per month, including the time described above.

Natural capital enhances farm production, profitability and financial resilience: findings from Australia

Journal articles

Using natural capital data from 114 farms in Australia via satellite imagery and on-ground vegetation surveys, alongside production and financial data collected, this study found high-performing livestock businesses benefit from high levels of natural capital. High levels of specific types of natural capital were associated with increased production efficiency of up to 3%, improved livestock gross margin, higher farm earnings, and higher levels of climate resilience.

Beyond the buzz: analyzing actors promoting regenerative agriculture in Europe

Journal articles

This study analysed 849 actor websites and interviewed 131 regenerative farmers across five European countries and mapped actor types, locations, sizes, and promoted themes (e.g. biodiversity) and practices (e.g. no-tillage). It found regenerative agriculture originated as a grassroots approach to farming that was co-opted by non-farming actors around 2020. But since 2021, the number of new regenerative farmers declined, raising concerns that the focus shifted from farming to marketing driven by multinational companies.

A food system transformation pathway reconciles 1.5 °C global warming with improved health, environment and social inclusion

Journal articles

This study estimates that combining all food system measures may reduce yearly mortality by 182 million life years and almost halves nitrogen surplus while offsetting negative effects of environmental protection measures on absolute poverty. It did this by quantifying the impact of 23 food system measures on 15 outcome indicators related to public health, the environment, social inclusion and the economy, up to 2050.

China’s food security and food system governance: recent developments and global implications

Journal articles

This study shows China’s food system has undergone complex transformations during the last decade. Consumer preferences are shifting toward diverse, high-quality, and nutritious foods, especially animal proteins, while direct grain consumption decreases. Whereas production faces declining self-sufficiency rates, heavy dependence on arable land, and spatial mismatches between production and consumption areas.

Can regenerative agriculture deliver nutritious food and a just food system?

This report presents insights from a year of engagement with UK food system stakeholders and experts to unpick the ambiguity of Regenerative Agriculture (Regen Ag). It considers if, how, and to what extent Regen Ag could support the pursuit of local, national and international goals for the UK food system.

Exhausted Earth – How fertiliser corporations destroyed the nitrogen cycle and how to fix it

This report by Foodrise, argues that fertiliser companies are villains of the nitrogen crisis who are making billions while devastating public health, biodiversity and climate. It suggests the industry should be more tightly regulated and made to pay for excess nitrogen fertiliser production.