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Regenerative Agriculture: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 2 by Luyun Yu and Version 1 by Luyun Yu.

Regenerative agriculture refers to an approach to agricultural production that seeks to restore and enhance the ecological functions of farming systems, particularly soil health, biodiversity, nutrient cycling, and water regulation, while maintaining productive capacity. Rather than prescribing a single standardized production method, it combines context-specific practices such as reduced or no tillage, cover cropping, diversified crop rotations, organic amendments, agroforestry, and integrated crop–livestock management [1][2]. These practices aim to increase soil organic matter, improve soil structure and water retention, support beneficial soil organisms, and reduce erosion and dependence on external inputs. At the ecosystem level, regenerative agriculture emphasizes the recovery of biological interactions and ecological processes that sustain agricultural landscapes [2][3]. However, definitions and assessment criteria remain diverse, and the environmental outcomes of individual practices depend on soil conditions, climate, management intensity, and implementation duration [1][3].

  • soil health
  • soil organic carbon
  • agroecosystem restoration
  • biodiversity
  • conservation tillage
  • cover cropping
  • crop rotation
  • ecological resilience
  • sustainable agriculture

 Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science •  Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics •  Agricultural and Biological Sciences •  Life Sciences

References

  1. Peter Newton; Nicole Civita; Lee Frankel-Goldwater; Katharine Bartel; Colleen Johns; What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 2020, 4, 577723. [CrossRef]
  2. Sadeeka L. Jayasinghe; Dean T. Thomas; Jonathan P. Anderson; Chao Chen; Ben C. T. Macdonald; Global Application of Regenerative Agriculture: A Review of Definitions and Assessment Approaches. Sustainability 2023, 15, 15941. [CrossRef]
  3. L. Schreefel; R.P.O. Schulte; I.J.M. de Boer; A. Pas Schrijver; H.H.E. van Zanten; Regenerative agriculture – the soil is the base. Glob. Food Secur. 2020, 26, 100404. [CrossRef]
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