Building the Business Case for Conservation Agriculture and Redefining Our Approach to Feeding the World
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2024-01-12 In Blog Written by Justin Platt, Founder & CEO, Zylem and RegenZ Let’s talk about how we grow our food. There’s a bit of a debate going on between two ways of doing things. On one side, there’s the traditional farming method that uses a lot of chemicals to grow crops. They worry that changing how we farm […]
Conservation Agriculture
Photos above used courtesy of Helen Gordon, WWF SA Introduction Our continent is bleeding to death: megatons of topsoil wash out to sea every year due to soil structure degraded by ploughing. Conservation Agriculture (CA) – or “Conservation Tillage” as it was often called – is a cost-effective, environmentally friendly method of farming which does […]