Regenerative agriculture has rapidly emerged as an important concept in discourses about contemporary sustainable farming. From small scale, avant-garde land practices to frameworks for the interface between international food industries and large scale agriculture, 'Regenerative' is becoming a key term. Just like the concept of sustainability from the 1987 Brundtland report, the notion of the regenerative draws on and informs way beyond ecosystems, from ways of meaning-making and modes of social organization to forms of leadership.

Through a series of workshops and excursions AIAS is exploring regenerative agriculture as a means to open dialogue and potentially build bridges across farmers, researchers, advisors, policy makers and artists.

Topics that have been explored are:

• The role of regenerative agriculture in mitigating socio-ecological crises: Can regenerative agriculture become the salvation of large-scale industrial agriculture and food security on over-degraded agricultural soils around the warming globe?
• Regenerative agriculture beyond soil health and towards community empowerment: To what extent are community empowerment and livelihood resilience integrated into a transition to regenerative agriculture?
• Cooptation and implementation of regenerative agriculture: Who produces and controls regenerative agriculture knowledge and discourse, and how to evaluate novel practices?