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In experiments over several years on test plots polyculture based approach, the author demonstrates multiple gains that address issues ranging from self-sufficiency of economically viable food production to stopping desertification. 

From the paper: "Despite the no-input practice except water and...

Video interview with a farm family engaged in the natural farming approach in India describe how it has changed their wellbeing. 

By Bandaru Praveen Kumar for Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming, 

Using the recent Michaung cyclone event in December 2023 the author Devindra Sharma contrasts the resilience of those areas planted in natural farming versus those in traditional agriculture. He maintains that such farming methods are not only more resilient but more productive in the long run.

By De...

Updated version of an earlier work, "this second framework paper (NWP2) is targeted at practitioners involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of natural resource–based rural development activities around the world, trying to make them more equitable, efficient, and effective. We also...

Produced by the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming project in India, this animated video engages farmers and potential collaborators in understanding the vision, techniques, and cultural fit with this approach to agriculture.  It is not hard to imagine how this kind of approach could...

I am building an innovation center in Kumano, Japan based on regenerative principles; I collaborate with university students and professionals to create our infrastructure and educational activities. I hope our center will become a blueprint for how regional economies in Japan and around the world...

In this session, we'll visit a project that gained new life after the directors met in Global Regeneration CoLab's, Regenerative Insights Circle!

Kumano Shindo is renovating an akiya (abandoned house) and land in Kumano, Japan, and turning it into a regenerative innovation hub that is part of the...

In 2003, Kamikatsu became the first municipality in Japan to make a zero-waste declaration. Since then, the town has transformed its open-air burning practices for waste disposal into a system of buying, consuming and discarding with the goal of reaching carbon neutrality. Now, the town estimates it...

The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management system, and how the land has changed since all inputs to the project were ceased in 2016. Neal moved on from Al Baydha in 2018 and can now be...