Regenerative agriculture leads to healthy soil, capable of producing high-quality, nutrient-dense food while simultaneously improving, rather than degrading land, and ultimately leading to productive farms and healthy communities and economies. It is dynamic and holistic, incorporating permaculture and organic farming practices, including conservation tillage, cover crops, crop rotation, composting, and mobile animal shelters and pasture cropping, to increase food production, farmers’ income and especially, topsoil.
The Rodale Institute's report Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution (2020) posits that humans could sequester more than 100% of global, annual, human-caused CO2 emissions if all global arable and grass lands were transitioned to regenerative systems, and that “stable soil carbon can be built quickly enough to result in a rapid drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide."