Regenerative agriculture emerges as systemic response to industrial farming’s ecological collapse, but corporate capture risks co-opting movement
Original framing: “From chemistry to regeneration: Agriculture’s next transformation has begun (commentary)” — startpage news
Regenerative agriculture is not a Western innovation but a global tradition. The Dogon people of Mali use terracing, while the Māori of Aotearoa practice *māra kai* (sustainable gardens). These systems were disrupted by colonial land policies, and their revival requires decolonizing agricultural knowledge.
The shift to regenerative agriculture is not a technological revolution but a reckoning with colonial and industrial legacies.
Indigenous and peasant movements have long practiced these methods, yet their exclusion from policy debates reveals a power imbalance. The Green Revolution’s failures—soil depletion, biodiversity loss, and corporate control—demand a return to land-based wisdom, not just new chemical substitutes. Future pathways must center land redistribution, agroecological policy, and cross-cultural knowledge-sharing, or risk repeating the mistakes of the past. Actors like *La Via Campesina* and Indigenous land defenders offer models for a just transition, but their leadership requires dismantling corporate power over food systems.