Rights-of-Soil

Lal, Rattan

doi:10.2489/jswc.74.4.81a

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“…One proposed mechanism for incentivizing farmers and ranchers to adopt regenerative agriculture is to financially reward them for the ecosystem service of sequestering carbon in soil and vegetation on their land (Lal, 2019(Lal, , 2020. Such a mechanism would effectively constitute a form of payments for environmental services (PES) program (Wunder, 2005), and has also been proposed under the title of "carbon farming."…”

Section: Implications For Payments For Carbon Sequestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes

Newton

Civita

Frankel-Goldwater

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Regenerative agriculture is an alternative means of producing food that, its advocates claim, may have lower-or even net positive-environmental and/or social impacts. Regenerative agriculture has recently received significant attention from producers, retailers, researchers, and consumers, as well as politicians and the mainstream media. Despite widespread interest in regenerative agriculture, no legal or regulatory definition of the term "regenerative agriculture" exists nor has a widely accepted definition emerged in common usage. This paper answers the research question: How have different scholars and practitioners defined regenerative agriculture? We reviewed 229 journal articles and 25 practitioner websites to characterize the term "regenerative agriculture." Our review revealed that there were many definitions and descriptions of regenerative agriculture in usage. These were variously based on processes (e.g., use of cover crops, the integration of livestock, and reducing or eliminating tillage), outcomes (e.g., to improve soil health, to sequester carbon, and to increase biodiversity), or combinations of the two. Process-based definitions may imply that advocates or users of such definitions are open-minded about the possible outcomes of these processes. Similarly, outcome-based definitions may imply that users of such definitions are open-minded about the processes that may lead to those outcomes. We discuss the implications of these different forms of definition for policy, including for certification programs and for payments for carbon sequestration programs. More generally, wide variance in the definitions used may lead to uncertainty about what different actors mean when they talk about regenerative agriculture. We suggest that it may be helpful for individual users of the term "regenerative agriculture" to define it comprehensively for their own purpose and context.

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Section: Implications For Payments For Carbon Sequestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes

Newton

Civita

Frankel-Goldwater

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

259

184

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“…They understand best how the vines in their care and the wines produced from those grapes are doing in their specific social and ecological environments. Furthermore, they have a place‐based, situated knowledge (Haraway 1988) stemming from their daily interactions with non‐human life, as well as other humans (e.g., workers, neighbors, and patrons) and material objects (e.g., soil [cf., Lal 2019]).…”

Section: A Multispecies Perspective On Terroir and Workmentioning

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On Winegrowers and More‐than‐Human Workers in Ohioan and Alsatian Vineyards

Arceño¹

2021

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Understandings of the terroir concept range from recognizing “the environment” as being largely responsible for affecting the taste of a place‐based product like wine to considering the intervening role of social actors in its production. This article takes the perspective that non‐human life forms, as well as non‐living entities, are more than just ecologically embedded observers. They also have active roles in the terroir system itself. Here, I use multispecies framings and multisensory approaches to analyze data gathered from interviews and participant observation with winegrowers in central Ohio and eastern France over a period of 18 months. I contend that non‐human actants contribute various forms of labor throughout the terroir system, as understood through semiotic relationships with human counterparts. Attending to more‐than‐human workers is important for understanding changes to the “taste of place” in times of climatic, political, and socio‐cultural change.

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“…In another trend, recent conversations around the rights of nature have been extended to the idea of that there should be ‘rights of soil’, whereby threats to soil health and functionality should be approached not just from technical or financial interventions, but legal and cultural ones. Eminent soil scientist Rattan Lal has recently proposed that ‘soil degradation, pollution, and depletion is a moral and ethical wrong that must be stopped’ in recognition of the living components of soil and the right of those components to flourish [100].…”

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The role of soils in learning and inspiration, physical and psychological experiences, and in supporting identities

McElwee

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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This paper reviews the literature on soil and nature's contributions to people (NCP) around learning and inspiration, physical and psychological experiences, and supporting identities, revealing a range of relationships to imagining, understanding and experiencing soil. Often labelled elsewhere as ‘cultural ecosystem services’, these NCP provide a range of benefits that are mostly non-material, non-consumptive and intangible. The review finds that NCP framings help to highlight how soils have contributed to inspiring learning and creative works, like art; to mental and physical health benefits, such as through recreation and gardening; and to cultural identities and practices, including religious practices and efforts for social justice. Overall, soils have played a large role in human creative endeavours, are the root of significant relationships to the environment and can be conceptualized through key metaphors, ideas and theory as a bridge linking culture and nature together. Yet despite the wide-ranging contributions of soils to these NCP, the literature remains uneven and much more remains to be understood, including how relational values of care and stewardship with soils can be fostered and how attention to the co-produced ‘biosocial’ nature of soil can help improve practices for soil health. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The role of soils in delivering Nature's Contributions to People’.

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Rights-of-Soil

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes

What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes

On Winegrowers and More‐than‐Human Workers in Ohioan and Alsatian Vineyards

The role of soils in learning and inspiration, physical and psychological experiences, and in supporting identities

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