Develop Regenerative Agriculture in your Value Chain

Transform your raw material production practices to secure your supply chain and achieve your CSR objectives.

Why Transform Your Production Chain?

The risks are very real for both farmers and buyers. Natural resource shortages and extreme weather events rank among the top five most severe environmental risks of the coming decade. These are directly linked to a global economic crisis that will predominantly impact supply chains.

The adoption of regenerative agricultural practices is a recognized solution with clear and significatn benefits in the short, medium, and long term.

What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture involves practices that restore and maintain the health of ecosystems over the long term while ensuring the economic viability of farming or livestock operations. It operates based on three complementary pillars: crop management, soil management, and agroforestry. It seeks to produce net positive impacts on soil, climate, biodiversity, and farmers' livelihoods through a context-specific and evidence-based approach, emphasizing local conditions, experimentation, and impact measurement.

What are the Benefits for Companies?

Regenerative agriculture presents an opportunity to address environmental challenges while creating economic and social value. By implementing these practices, companies can not only improve their resilience to climate risks but also enhance their competitiveness and ensure compliance with increasingly stringent regulatory requirements.

REDUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

Regenerative agriculture helps mitigate risks associated with climate change, such as reduced agricultural yields due to soil degradation or extreme weather events, thereby stabilizing and securing raw material supplies.

LONG-TERM ECONOMIC BENEFITS

Beyond a competitive advantage in brand image, regenerative practices contribute to yield stability and lower production costs. Additionally, a company's ESG performance is becoming a crucial factor in its financial valuation.

EMISSIONS REDUCTION AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION (SBTi FLAG)

Regenerative agriculture helps reduce carbon footprints and promotes carbon sequestration in soils, meeting the growing demand for robust corporate climate strategies.

COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS (CSRD)

Adopting regenerative agriculture helps companies comply with current standards and prepares them for increasingly strict future regulatory requirements, particularly regarding land management.

Agroforestry: A Major Component of Regenerative Agriculture

Agroforestry refers to the integration of trees within agricultural landscapes. This land management system can take various forms and practices, all of which involve the introduction or management of trees, shrubs, and hedgerows around and/or within agricultural plots.

Benefits of Trees in Agricultural Environments:

CLIMATE

Increased carbon storage in agricultural areas, notably through higher soil organic matter content; Creation of a microclimate around crops.

BIODIVERSITY

Creation of habitats for wildlife; Increased soil fauna and fungi; Return of beneficial species (such as birds that prey on pests) and pollinating insects.

SOILS

Enhanced soil fertility; Restoration of soil structure; Soil stabilization through root systems; Prevention of erosion; Barrier against drying or cold winds.

WATER

Slowed runoff; Improved water infiltration into soils; Enhanced water quality; Reduced irrigation needs.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC

Increased yields; Additional income sources; Enhanced food security for farming communities in tropical areas.

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Our 4-Step Approach

Feasibility Study

We conduct an on-site visit to validate the project's feasibility and establish a preliminary budget. Stakeholders are involved when necessary to ensure the project's success (e.g., neighboring landowners).

Custom Project Audit and Design

Our engineers design the project based on the context and strategic expectations. This quantitative and qualitative approach allows us to refine the budget and define the impact measurement framework.

Project Organization and Implementation

The project is implemented on a pilot scale to validate the design in the field. This phase, carried out with local farmers, is supervised by Reforest'Action experts and includes a training/skills transfer component.

Impact Measurement Over 30 Years

Reforest'Action measures the project's impacts over 30 years. This measurement is structured around climate, biodiversity, water, soil, and socio-economic criteria, detailed according to several indicators defined based on the project's objectives.

We Help You Value Regenerative Agriculture in the SBTi FLAG (Forest, Land, and Agriculture):

Develop degraded land restoration projects to meet your target goals.
Define specific practices and objectives.
Establish methodologies and measure benefits.
Collaborate with stakeholders to encourage the adoption of these practices.

Impact Measurement at the Heart of Our Approach

We consider impact measurement essential and central to our approach:

We support you in measuring the impact of a project over a period of up to 30 years.
Internal protocols and impact measurement indicators are developed.
We ensure that indicators are recognized by international frameworks and renowned peers.
An MRV platform is internally designed to monitor your projects.
Measurement should not exceed the project cost; we implement a hybrid impact measurement approach, combining remote and on-site monitoring.

A Collaborative Approach

To ensure the relevance of our research and innovation efforts, our dedicated team collaborates with renowned institutions and companies with expertise in cutting-edge technology (such as The Global Biodiversity Standard and Kanop, among others).

Reforest'Action, 15 years of experience in agroforestry

1,650 PROJECTS CONDUCTED ACROSS 45 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE

3 MAIN SECTORS OF ACTIVITY: ARABLE CROPS, COTTON & VINEYARDS

DESIGN OFFICE: A TEAM OF 30 IN-HOUSE EXPERTS

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