Scaling Regenerative Farming: An Action Plan

The food supply system, on which we all rely, is threatened by climate change and biodiversity loss. Regenerative farming can help us tackle the environmental impact of and on our supply chains as a critical part of our path to net zero and help to strengthen their future resilience. However, despite many companies and governments acknowledging these benefits and despite efforts to advance this approach on the ground, regenerative farming is not scaling fast enough to address the challenges we face. The rate of growth needs to triple to reach 40% of global cropland by 2030 and deliver against the world’s need to limit climate change to 1.5 degrees.

Why is it not scaling faster?

At the request of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, we formed a Task Force to answer this question and to identify what we, the private sector, can do about it. This Action Plan is the result of a year of collaborative work among Task Force members, other companies, stakeholders and, most critically, farmers. Building on the progress of other initiatives, we’ve used three food value chains as case studies to identify the reasons for the slow adoption and to develop actions the private sector can take to accelerate it.