Soil Quality and Regenerative, Sustainable Farming Systems

Abstract

Renewable farming systems; Soil health Definitions Soil quality refers to the capacity of a specific soil to function within natural and/or managed ecosystem boundaries to be biologically productive, maintain, or foster water and air quality, in support of agrobiodiversity and thus sustaining human livelihood and health. Sustainable farming systems are agroecosystems that are resilient, adaptive, biologically diverse, and capable of retaining their productivity without much dependence from offfarm inputs. They are regenerative systems also known as renewable farming systems, and their capability of remaining productive is strongly linked to soil quality.