17/07/2026
Its planting season, ever wonder what part trees play in regeneration?
Its one of the best ways you can revitalize your soil, lock in carbon, and reduce erosion, plant a tree!
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Regenerative agriculture has become one of the defining climate conversations of our time, featured in nearly 100 events at Climate Week NYC in 2025 and the subject of 27 dedicated sessions at COP30, where Brazil launched a global initiative to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded agricultural land. But as the movement grows, one significant gap keeps appearing in its mainstream framing: trees. Hugh Locke, writing for Sustainable Harvest International, makes the case that agroforestry, particularly for the hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers cultivating plots of two hectares or less across the Global South, is not supplementary to regenerative practice but central to it.
Trees provide deep-rooting carbon sequestration, nitrogen fixation, erosion control, biodiversity corridors, and long-term soil structure, some of the most powerful regenerative benefits available to any farming system. Meanwhile, the reforestation and forest restoration sector has been scaling rapidly, with satellite monitoring, carbon markets, and nature-based investment funds operating largely in parallel to the regenerative agriculture movement. Locke's piece asks why these two fields, operating on the same landscapes with the same farmers and the same urgent timeline, have not been formally brought together.
Read more:https://regenerationinternational.org/2026/05/31/trees-belong-in-the-regenerative-agriculture-story/
