Regenerative agriculture aims to ensure healthy soils, increase biodiversity, restore ecosystem balance, and mitigate the acceleration of climate change while enabling farmers to create a sustainable business. Regenerative agriculture is not a static state, it is a journey. At the Animal Agtech Innovation Summit 2023, Ruud Overbeek, SVP Corporate Development & Strategic Relationships at FoodChain ID, addressed that for a successful journey from conventional to regenerative farming you need transparency, certification, and standards. We followed up with 5 questions to Ruud to learn more.

Climate change is an urgent issue. Is agriculture doing enough?

“Agriculture is one of the big contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, our sector has the ability to fight this by stepping up the carbon sequestering in the arable soil we use for food and feed production...