Regeneration International

Dr Van Kien Nguyen is an honorary senior lecturer at ANU Fenner School of environment & Society (2020-2024). Dr Kien is also an adjunct senior research fellow at the School of Environmental & Rural Sciences, University of New England where he leads the ACIAR/IDRC funded project in Food Losses & Watse in the Catfish Pangasius Value Chain in the Mekong Region (2021-2025).

Million Belay coordinates the Alliance for Food Sovereignty for Africa, a network of major networks in Africa. He is a member of the International Panel of Experts on the Sustainability of Food Systems (IPES-Food). He is a founder of MELCA – Ethiopia, an indigenous NGO working on issues of agro-ecology, intergenerational learning, advocacy and livelihood improvement of local and indigenous peoples...

Sheila Darmos is a third generation farmer and a social entrepreneur in the agri-food sector and civic engagement field in Greece. Her key focuses lie within her lived physical and social environment, namely the farming and rural communities, and thus a systemic approach to enable transitions towards regeneration in a holistic way. Link to Bio Simon Kraemer works to weave milieus in support of reg...

Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, is the founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International.

Allan Savory, a renowned ecologist and founder of the Savory Institute, has dedicated his life to understanding and solving the problem of  biodiversity loss , which, among other factors, is fueling climate change by leading to desertification over most of Earth’s land area. 

Dr. André Leu, D.Sc., was named international director of Regeneration International in 2017. Previously, he was president of IFOAM—Organics International, the international umbrella organization for the organic sector. During 50-plus years of visiting and working in more than 100 countries, André acquired an extensive knowledge of farming and environmental systems across Asia, Europe, the America...

From Degenerative Industrial Agriculture to Regenerative Organic Agriculture - The real future of food, farming and communities, Dr Vandana Shiva. Vandana discusses Bill Gates and the Billionaires’ corruption of agriculture and food systems compared to the positive alternative, regenerative organic agriculture of smallholder family farms, which produces more health and wealth per acre.

Dr. Gilles Eric Seralini of the University of Caen, France. Today he brings us a presentation about his research surrounding the hidden ingredients found in pesticides such as Roundup and the effects of Genetically Modified Organisms on animal health. This presentation is from Regeneration International's People's Food Summit 2023. The People’s Food Summit is a major 24-hour event in celebration o...

Precious Phiri, African Coordinator for Regeneration International, has a conversation with Gertrude Pswarayi-Jabson; PELUM Zimbabwe Coordinator, and Caroline Jacqueta from Bio-Innovation Zimbabwe and co-producer of the Seed and Food Festival.

In the Foreward to the new book by Ridge Shinn and Lynn Pledger, renowned holistic rancher Gabe Brown writes: “It seems that every day we wake up to a new crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and high fuel prices to empty store shelves and war in Ukraine. Our world is in a constant state of change. While many cry doomsday, some, like Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger, know that the secret to resiliency...

The Billion Agave Project is a game-changing ecosystem-regeneration strategy recently adopted by several innovative Mexican farms in the high-desert region of Guanajuato. This strategy combines the growing of agave plants and nitrogen-fixing companion tree species (such as mesquite), with holistic rotational grazing of livestock. The result is a high-biomass, high forage-yielding system that works...

Dr. Vandana Shiva joins Andre Leu in a conversation about the state of biodiversity, regeneration, food sovereignty, and freedom in the world.

The global best practice model for funding and scaling up regenerative and organic food and farming comes to us from Australia, which has more organically certified farmland and pastureland than any other nation in the world. Veteran organic farmers in Australia have come up with an alternative solution to the global fraud of carbon trading and carbon credits, and corporate greenwashing. They call...

What’s going on with our kids? As of 2011, 43% of US children (32 million) had chronic health conditions, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays was included. This data is 13 years old and newer studies suggest that these numbers continue to escalate to shocking levels. As any parent knows, trying to get to the root cause of common problems like ext...

Midwest Healthy Ag is a research project dedicated to listening to farmers and farming communities in the midwest of the USA about agriculture, the environment, community, and health. Learn more here: https://midwesthealthyag.org/

Based in Kotagiri in the heart of the Nilgiri mountains, Last Forest Enterprise has been a market intermediary for wild forest produce that is harvested by indigenous communities since 2010. These communities are working on forest and agriculture produce, which are natural, wild and local.

Konrad Hauptfleisch is the Head of Capacity Development at IFOAM - Organics International, and has managed the Organic Academy since 2012. He brings 20 years of experience in management, facilitation, training and grassroots sector development.

Nate was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Abington Friends School in 2000 and from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2004. Following college, he worked as a landscaper, camp counselor, office manager, and theatrical spotlight operator, before committing himself to a life of activism. He has worked in a variety of jobs in politics and organizing, including Barack Obama's 2...

Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She i...

Sundeep Kamath is a Biodynamic Advisor having professional expertise in the wide spectrum of the Organic/Biodynamic food landscape, from Biodynamic Agriculture production to market linkages based on Associative Economics. He has been the Secretary of the Biodynamic Association of India & is currently on the Board of IFOAM Asia & is the General Secretary of AIONA.

After decades of longstanding racism in the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) loan programs, Black farmers stand to lose their farms, land and livelihoods after a temporary injunction halted an estimated $4 billion in emergency relief passed by Congress as part of the American Rescue Act. On World Food Day, as part of the global People’s Food Summit, OCA Political Director Alexis Ba...

Nelson Mudzingwa (Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers' Forum (ZIMSOFF), National Coordinator) is one of the founding leaders of the Shashe Agroecology School that has become one of the most successful examples that practices local diverse food production that is based on the fundamentals of their spirituality and cosmovision. His presentation is generous and thought-provoking, sharing on food pro...

Kate Mendenhall, Executive Director of the Organic Farmers Association interviews: -Ed Maltby, Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance -Brad Santy, Organic Dairy Farmer from Maine who recently lost his contract with Horizon Organic -Jill Smith, Executive Director of the Western Organic Dairy Producers Alliance -Jennifer Beretta, Board President of the Western Organic D...

Winona LaDuke & Frank Bibeau of Honor the Earth discuss the rights of Manoomin (Wild Rice). Globally and nationally, Winona is known as a leader in the issues of cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, and sustainable food systems. She is one of the leaders in the work of protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. Frank’...

Ben Dobson, Will Harris, and Ronnie Cummins discuss carbon credits and regenerative projects in their regions of North America, including an exciting new agave-based regenerative system that is greening the desert in Mexico. Learn more at https://regenerationinternational.org Sign the regeneration pledge: https://regenerationinternational.org/pledge