ABSTRACT
Contemporary interest in regenerative approaches to agricultural sustainability can be attributed to environmental concerns that became apparent during the 1950s and 1960s. For the redesign of regenerative agriculture approaches that achieve transformative impacts on whole landscapes, much more cooperation will be needed, plus widespread individual actions that collectively result in wider additive or synergistic benefits. The philosophical dominance of the Cartesian view from the seventeenth century of nature-as-machine was built on long-standing monotheistic views that set humans apart from nature. Farmer-to-farmer learning has been shown to be particularly important for implementing the context-specific, knowledge-intensive, and regenerative practices of sustainable intensification. When moving toward sustainability, already in 1985, S. Hill proposed that there are three, nonlinear stages in such a transition: efficiency; substitution; and redesign. Agricultural systems worldwide could be at a tipping point with the spread and innovation in sustainable practices.
