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Regenerative Minimum Standards for Retail Food Claims

Regenerative Minimum Standards for Retail Food Claims

著者： AP Lewis
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概要

These industry stakeholder workgroup sessions will help draf a guide for retailer buyers to use when reviewing retail food product packaging that displays regenerative claims. It is important to provide a clear decision tree based on what inputs and practices are reported by the brand.

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  • Seed Sources and Sovereignty

    Seed Sources and Sovereignty
    2026/10/30
    As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to how regenerative seed development, sourcing, and sharing is managed. It’s imperative to know how seed is grown, how traits are maintained, and how local lines are made widely available. Mutation, modification, and patents will be considered. Community and environmental outcomes are key.Here is a breakdown of the topics to be covered:Part 1Humans have managed to survive 12,000 years by selecting and saving seeds to replant for future harvests. How has this legacy seed system functioned within agroecological communities? How has it responding to the pressures of temperatures, drought and flooding brought on by climate change?Part 2Biotech interests promote their proprietary seeds by claiming higher yields to, they say, “feed the world”. They tend to study their best years during perfect conditions versus the most challenging years for indigenous crops. What is the current state of resilience and yield in non-biotech seed sources?Part 3Many regenerative certification seals don’t speak to seed sourcing, especially when GMO and bioengineered seeds are used in their “regenerative” chemical-dependent cropping systems. At the same time, biotech interests claim endlessly that natural seeds and organic farming can’t “feed the world”. Is there any place for proprietary seeds in a regenerative system?Part 4Certified organic seeds are more available than ever, but they tend to be cultivated by just a few companies in just a few optimized environments. They often don’t perform well in other places. Is this a weakness of certified organic systems? Can indigenous seed stock such as landraces selected for local performance fill the gap that commercial organic seed growers can’t fill? Should localized seeds be eligible for certified organic systems?Part 5A seed contains a multitude of potential phenotype expressions as plant genetics respond to soil, weather, water, sun, wind, and insects. As a general rule, should seeds in regenerative systems focus on the most naturally adaptable rather than over-emphasizing a particular target trait, like yield, drought tolerance, or pest resistance?Part 6What should concern us the most about new laws outlawing seed saving? Why do state ag universities focus primarily on biotech seeds? How is the organic and regenerative community building its own indigenous seed capacity? Where are our collective vulnerabilities?Miguel Santistevan has Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Master’s Degree in Agriculture Ecology and has many publications and has done many presentations on his research about acequias, maize, and resilient food systems. He is a certified Permaculture Designer with 30 years of experience. He is the radio producer of ¡Que Vivan las Acequias! radio show with over 23 hours of programming and is the founder of “Sol Feliz Enterprises LLC” which consults on land improvement, conducts webinars, tours, & other educational programming including curriculum development. He has been farming for 23 years on his ancestral land that is connected to the Acequia Madre del Sur as a parciante and has served as past Mayordomo and President of his acequia. He is the 4th Taos Poet Laureate for 2023 & 2024, doing a project to inspire youth to produce and perform poetry. Most importantly, he is a husband and a father with two daughters.Bob Whitney – Extension Organic SpecialistBob Whitney serves as the statewide Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Organic Specialist, helping Texas farmers, ranchers, handlers and businesses with organic certification, production, research, markets and education.Joni Kindwall-Moore is an entrepreneur, scientist, and registered nurse with 25+ years of scientific inquiry, bedside healthcare, and food system activism aimed at reshaping the US grain sector, focused on climate-smart farming, regenerative agricultural practices, nutrient density, and “soil-to-plate” transparency.Deb Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) is an Indigenous leader, seed saver, and the founder and executive director of the Pawnee Seed Preservation Society. She is widely known as the lifelong “Keeper of the Seed” for the Pawnee Nation.Julia Dakin is a farmer and seed activist in Mendocino County, California. She has been involved in agriculture for most of her life, and has devoted the past few years to growing market crops and teaching the benefits of seed saving, local adaptation, and genetic diversity.Where this fitsThis session on regenerative seed sourcing builds on previous conversations about Synthetics, Soil Health and Fertility and Compost, Manure, and Cover Crops, Tillage, Ruminant Livestock, Hogs and Poultry, Dairy Production, by asking what are the best practices – and worst practices – when managing seed development, production and sharing in a regenerative system. Our panelists are practitioners with skills honed from decades of experimentation and learning.All session info at https://...
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  • GMOs and New Genetic Techniques

    GMOs and New Genetic Techniques
    2026/10/08

    This session on regenerative agriculture production builds on previous conversations about Synthetics, Soil Health and Fertility, Compost, Manure, and Cover Crops, Tillage, Ruminant Livestock, and Dairy Production by asking what are the best practices - and worst practices - when managing a regenerative system. Our panelists are practitioners with skills honed from decades of experimentation and learning. They also bring cautionary tales of shortcuts and unpredicted outcomes.

    Part 1

    GMO is everywhere, so why do we even care?

    Part 2

    What are examples the greatest threats from around the world in agriculture, food ingredients, food, animals, insects, fungi, soil, microbiomes and other areas?

    Part 3

    What's a real-world example of how these genetic techniques work?

    Part 4

    Can these technologies really claim to be regenerative and climate friendly? Is there any part of these technologies that is defensible?

    Part 5

    How are these techniques disclosed in the supply chain and on retail food products?

    Special bonus session

    Hear directly from the leaders of the grassroots campaign to keep GMO corn genetics out of Mexico.


    All session info at https://ifoamnorthamerica.org/regenerative-minimum-standards/ New podcasts released every three weeks.

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  • Dairy Production

    Dairy Production
    2026/09/17

    Please join us for this stakeholder session on Minimum Regenerative Standards for retail food claims. This session will focus on regenerative dairy production. Guest panelists include Dr. Meg Cattell (CSU), Phil Forbes (Kalona) and Phyllis Van Amburgh (Dharma Lea). Pics and bios below.

    As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to how regenerative dairy production is managed. It's imperative to know how feed is grown, how pastures and paddocks are maintained, and how milking, pasturing, and harvest are managed. Vaccinations, antibiotics and other pharmaceutical use will be examined. Animal welfare and environmental outcomes are key.

    This session on regenerative dairy production builds on previous conversations about Synthetics, Soil Health and Fertility and Compost, Manure, and Cover Crops, Tillage, Ruminant Livestock, and Hogs and Poultry, by asking what are the best practices - and worst practices - when managing dairy production in a regenerative system. Our panelists are practitioners with skills honed from decades of experimentation and learning. They also bring cautionary tales of shortcuts and unpredicted outcomes.

    The session is organized around the following topics to help stay focused but also embrace the holistic complexity of dairy production:

    PART ONE: What is the longstanding and ancient human relationship to milk animals?
    • Safe and nutritious meat/milk/preserved food/ byproducts produced by animals consuming inedible grass and non-potable water
    • Key foundation for family and community food sovereignty and resilience.
    • A system that cares for animals and ecological outcomes.
    • Source of manure fertility for food crops

    PART 2: What are the current best practices in dairy in North America and are they still similar?
    • Animal welfare
    • Pasturing
    • Grassfed ecology
    • Appropriate breeds
    • Scale of operation
    • Feed, forage
    • Confinement .and manure management
    • Local processing and consumption

    PART 3: We need to take a moment to describe conventional and large-scale dairy industry’s weak points, where the economic and ecological system built to support it often undermines some longstanding best practices.
    • Substantial grain and silage feeding
    • Feed crops produced with GMO and conventional pesticides
    • Concentrated confinement and antibiotic treatment
    • No real and consistent access to living pasture
    • Little improvement to ecological outcomes

    PART 4: Describe the tensions between higher production costs, and consumer demand when weighing higher retail prices.
    • Accounting for the integration of true costs into production system instead of externalizing costs to environment, animal welfare, community vitality.
    • What works to communicate to shoppers the values behind the higher price?
    • What works to communicate to shoppers how low-priced industrial milk is based on externalized costs to the animal welfare, worker welfare, farmers, and local ecology?
    • Why are some smaller certified organic dairies struggling to maintain market share and stay in operation? Do legitimate label claims help fix this imbalance?

    PART 5: Comparing label claims and certification systems
    • What parts of current best practices are addressed by USDA organic certification and which are not?
    • Grassfed, herd size, access to pasture, antibiotics, weaning, grain supplements, nutrition supplements, insemination.
    • Origin or livestock, non-GMO grain and silage, antibiotic use
    • Are current NOP Organic rules comprehensive? Consistent? Enforced?
    • Is there a regenerative claim whose requirements meet your own expectations of “regenerative”?
    • What practices and outcomes make a dairy operation regenerative?
    • Can average shoppers consistently match practices to label claims across brands?

    All session info at https://ifoamnorthamerica.org/regenerative-minimum-standards/ New podcasts released every three weeks.

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    1 時間 32 分
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