Regenerative Farming And The Green New Deal

Lead Author: Mackenzie Feldman; Food and Sustainability Fellow, Data For Progress

Contributors: John Ikerd; Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia

Seth Watkins; Owner: Pinhook Farm

Charlie Mitchell; Food and Sustainability Fellow, Data For Progress

Johny Bowman; CFO + COO, Edenworks

Calla Rose Ostrander

The Carbon Project, People Food & Land Foundation

Executive Producer

Greg Carlock; Green New Deal Research Director, Data For Progress

The Green New Deal is a broad and ambitious agenda that includes a commitment by the federal government to invest in communities, infrastructure, technology, and good jobs to help the United States meet the challenges of climate change and achieve economic and environmental justice.

United States agricultural land could be one of our greatest resources for positive environmental change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considers soil carbon sequestration the lowest cost sequestration option with costs ranging from $0 to $100 per ton. Changing the way we farm could, within 25 years, sequester 20 PgC (petagrams of carbon), more than 10 percent of anthropogenic emissions.

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