Source: NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION, 6/8/16


Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Margaret Reeves Ph.D, and was originally posted on the Pesticide Action Network’s (PAN) website on June 6, 2016. Margaret is a PAN Senior Scientist with expertise in agroecology and soil ecology. As a long-time farmworker advocate, Margaret serves on the Board of the Equitable Food Initiative and works with partners around the country to ensure worker-protective federal and state policy. PAN North America is an NSAC member organization. In this guest post, Margaret reviews a recently released book, The Carbon Farming Solution, which addresses the critical overlap between agriculture and climate change.

Regenerative agriculture can reverse climate change within our lifetime. That’s the inspiring, well-documented message of longtime farmer and author Eric Toensmeier in his new book The Carbon Farming Solution. Deftly integrating explanations of science, local knowledge and public policy opportunities, Toensmeier shows how regenerative agriculture can and must be central to collective global action to address climate change.

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