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Regenerative Agriculture in Practice: A Review

24 Sep 2024

Regenerative agriculture, a farming approach that focuses on soil health and ecosystems, has recently received considerable attention, particularly as an essential element of sustainable agriculture in the context of climate change. This paper reviews quantitative evidence of regenerative agriculture’s impact on productivity, resilience, and climate change mitigation—through carbon sequestration in soil. The effectiveness of regenerative agriculture depends on local climate conditions and existing practices. In addition, large-scale adoption of regenerative agriculture faces multiple challenges, such as the trade-off between short-term loss and long-term gains, smallholder farmer profitability, and other common market failures in agriculture. These challenges are especially salient in African agriculture. However, payments for ecosystem services, though yet to be carefully designed, can potentially incentivize farmers to adopt regenerative agriculture and create an additional source of income. Finally, further empirical evidence on the causal impacts of regenerative agriculture is needed to support policy design and recommendations. The paper concludes with open questions on regenerative agriculture for future study.
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Dabalen, Andrew, Goyal, Aparajita, Song, Ruozi

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“ Dabalen, Andrew ; Goyal, Aparajita ; Song, Ruozi . 2024 . Regenerative Agriculture in Practice: A Review . Policy Research Working Paper; 10919 . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42192 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO . ”
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Policy Research Working Papers
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10919
Identifier externaldocumentum
34393095
Identifier internaldocumentum
34393095
Pages
26
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United States of America
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Policy Research Working Paper; 10919
Report
WPS10919
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CC BY 3.0 IGO
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World Bank
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
UNIT
Office of the Chief Economist (AFRCE)-210
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42192
date disclosure
2024-09-24
region geographical
World

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