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Tending to the long-term viability of agriculture through just, equitable, and regenerative transitions
Tending to the long-term viability of agriculture through just, equitable, and regenerative transitions
Some of our current approaches to farming are not viable long-term - economically, socially, or environmentally. Farmers love their land, their families, their communities and many want to leave a legacy - which often means leaving things better than they found them. For farmers to transition to practices that are more viable long-term, it has to work ecologically and financially in the near-term.
Farmers may tend to be very independent, but they don't make choices in a vacuum. Farmers are part of a whole ecosystem of markets, consumers, suppliers, processing, distribution, retailing, and education. It will take this whole system to enable more and more farmers to manage in ways that are viable long-term.
This ecosystem is us. We are the consumers, the businesses, and the communities that can choose a future where our agriculture is viable long-term. We can choose an agriculture that mitigates climate change and creates resilience in the face of drought, floods and bushfires. We can choose food sovereignty and justice. We can choose a nourishing relationship with the land. We can connect through our shared love of country, cultivation, and beautiful food and fibres. We can create space for healing.
Producing food, fibre, and fuel is the foundation of society, and our choices about agriculture shape our future.
TransitionAg documents PhD research into catalyzing systems change so that farmers, the agricultural sector, and communities can take steps toward the future we imagine. When many of us take steps and then look back, we will see the pathways and connections that make it possible for more farms and businesses to transition. If we build momentum in diverse ways, it becomes possible to make good upon the promises of regeneration beyond the farm gate - it becomes possible to imagine an agriculture that contributes to the regeneration of landscapes and communities.
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TransitionAg acknowledges the Traditional Custodians throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, sky and community. We acknowledge the harm that has been done, and that the land was never ceded. In the spirit of reconciliation, we live in hope for the incredible possibilities open to us all if we listen to the wisdom that we might be privileged to encounter. We pay our respect to elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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