What Regenerative Agriculture can Learn from the Organic Movement
Simpson Centre Policy Trends Issue Brief
Regenerative agriculture (RA) has gained attention as a new approach to farming that aims to go beyond sustainability. Despite the growing interest, there is no widely accepted definition for RA and that increases the risk for co-optation, hampers promotion and public action, and undermines incentivizing programs for adoption. For RA to realize its promise, it will need to merge with the corporate industrial agrifood system, and it can draw on lessons from the Organic Agriculture (OA) movement to do so.
By Tatenda Mambo, Guillaume Lhermie, and Anaïs Dardier
Published March 2025.