Regenerative agriculture seeks to produce food while improving soil health, supporting biodiversity, and enhancing climate resilience. However, evidence on its environmental and socioeconomic outcomes remain limited, especially for whole-farm scale transitions. H3 and FixOurFood, two TUKFS research projects, have worked in partnership with farmers and at different scales to fill this research gap.
The H3 project assessed the transition from conventional to regenerative farming through a landscape-scale experiment, co-designed with commercial farmers across two UK regions. This webinar presented a scoring system developed by the H3 project to evaluate the outcomes of regenerative agriculture on soil, biodiversity, yields, and crop health.
The FixOurFood project co-designed and established a replicated large-plot trial to demonstrate and measure the effects of stacking regenerative agriculture principles on environmental and socio-economic outcomes. This webinar outlined the impact of stacking regenerative principles on soil health, hydrology, soil biodiversity, crop health and yield from five regenerative farming systems in comparison to a conventional farming system over a three-year period, and highlighted some of the challenges as well as the benefits of transitioning to regenerative agriculture.
Catch up on this Connect Series Event
On the first Thursday of each month our Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Dr Tracey Duncombe, holds a webinar showcasing research and innovation across the Food System landscape. To date, these events have covered a variety of topics from public diners and whole school approaches to food, to putting food centre stage at COP29 and cultured meat. If you would like to join future webinars please email food.systems@bbsrc.ukri.org or to catch up on previous events visit our YouTube playlist.
