Regenerative Agriculture
It has been estimated by UNFAO that food is responsible for one third of all global emissions. Regenerative Agriculture offers a way of reducing emissions from our food system at the same time as regenerating ecosystems and removing carbon.
The challenge for Regenerative Agriculture is one of scale; how much of the world’s growing population it could feed, how it works in different contexts, and how we measure its potential and impact to encourage investment.
Watch case study films showing Regenerative Agriculture in action around the world, and read reports and white papers from the Sustainable Markets Initiative and its members exploring how businesses are adopting regenerative farming practices in their supply chains.
Feeding Our Growing Population
Food is responsible for a third of all global emissions, but Regenerative Agriculture offers a way of reducing emissions from our food system at the same time as regenerating ecosystems and removing carbon.
RE:TV Case Studies
A collection of films looking at Regenerative Agriculture in practice around the world
Regenerative Farming: An Action Plan
Exploring how the private sector can accelerate the transition to Regenerative Agriculture
RE:TV Experts
Learn from leading agricultural academics and practitioners
Scaling Regenerative Farming: Levers For Action
Identifying four key levers which will help Regenerative Agriculture scale rapidly
Reports and Insights
Thought leadership from members of the Sustainable Markets Initiative
Agricultural Emissions
According to a 2024 World Bank Report, Agrifood is a bigger contributor to climate change than many think.
It generates almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, averaging around 16 gigatons annually. This is about one-sixth more than all of the world’s heat and electricity emissions.
The agrifood system is a huge, untapped source of low-cost climate change action. Unlike other sectors, it can have an outsized impact on climate change by drawing carbon from the atmosphere through ecosystems and soils.
The payoffs for investing in cutting agrifood emissions are estimated to be much bigger than the costs. Annual investments will need to increase by 18 times to $260 billion a year to halve current agrifood emissions by 2030 and put the world on-track for net-zero emissions by 2050.
Previous estimates show that the benefits in health, economic, and environmental terms could be as much as $4.3 trillion in 2030, a 16 to 1 return on investment costs.
For more information, visit the World Bank's report below.
