FAO and the Global Environment Facility spotlight three projects restoring ecosystems across Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela—showcasing how nature recovery underpins food security and rural livelihoods. In Brazil’s Caatinga, farmer Eusébia Bezerra, supported by a sustainable agroforestry project, turned drought-hit land into a diversified orchard that now supplies a local cooperative while conserving native species like…

A new peer-reviewed study in npj Sustainable Agriculture analyzes 849 websites and 131 farmer interviews across Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal to map who promotes “regenerative agriculture,” where they are based, and what they actually advocate. The authors find that the movement began as farmer-led, but since ~2020 has been increasingly shaped by…

Agriculture represents about 13% of Sweden’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet it also holds vast potential for carbon sequestration. A growing movement toward carbon farming—supported by EU frameworks such as the LULUCF Regulation and the Common Agricultural Policy—aims to transform Sweden’s agricultural lands into a major carbon sink. Through practices like cover cropping, reduced tillage, mixed…