Regenerative agriculture and the problem of sustainability: Contributions for a discussion

Abstract

This article’s main goal is to present regenerative agriculture as an alternative agrifood production approach, that provides elements to think about the resilience of socio- ecosystems, transcending the idea of sustainability, and that can also help with the discussion about Alternative Agrifood Movements (AAMs) from a new perspective. These are gathered under the banner of sustainability, and yet there is no agreement about the concept, much less about the forms of relationship between productive activities and nature's ecosystem processes.

These movements also face the challenge of sustaining a profitable productive activity, and at the same time avoiding environment degradation. Regenerative agriculture has functioned as a production model since the 1950s, and yet its potential has gone largely unnoticed by academics dedicated to thinking about these movements.