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Stewarding Native Lands Webinar Series
Decolonizing Regenerative Agriculture
September 3, 2020
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For 40 years
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All participants will be muted during the webinar
➢ Please use the question box to enter any questions to staff
➢ There will be a question and answer session at the end of the presentation. Please add your questions to the question box
Webinar Management
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Introductions
A-dae Romero Briones (Cochiti/Kiowa)
Director of Programs - Native Agriculture and Food Systems, First Nations Development Institute
Mark Muller
Executive Director, Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Mary Adelzadeh (Diné)
Consultant, First Nations Development Institute
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Poll
When was the first time you heard the term
Regenerative Agriculture?
A. When I signed-up for this webinar
B. Within the last year
C. 1-10 years ago
D. Too long ago, I can’t remember
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Regenerative
Agriculture
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The Story……
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The Terms…..
The 1st Agricultural Revolution: Hunter/gathers to Agriculture
The 2nd Agricultural Revolution: Mechanization of Agriculture (Tractors)
The 3rd Agricultural Revolution: The Green Revolution (GE and pesticides)
We are now in the 4th Agricultural Revolution:
Organic Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture
Digital Agriculture
Urban Agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture
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Indigenous Perspective: Kincentric
Ecology
The 1st Agricultural Revolution: Hunter/gathers to Agriculture
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ABSENT (except as the caveman “left behind”)
The 2nd Agricultural Revolution: Mechanization of Agriculture (Tractors)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ABSENT (“unless you send your children to boarding school”)
The 3rd Agricultural Revolution: The Green Revolution (GE and pesticides)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ABSENT (“because Native people don’t do science”)
We are now in the 4th Agricultural Revolution:
Organic Agriculture
Largely Absent-→ around 10-12 organic Indigenous operations
Sustainable Agriculture
There are some interest in Indigenous Agricultural Practices
Digital Agriculture
Urban Agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture
Deep Ecology Movement
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Regenerative Agriculture
1) a “functional” level focused on best practices that regenerate soil health
and sequester carbon;
2) an “integrative” level focused on more holistically designing farms to
improve the health and vitality of the wider ecosystem, not just soil;
3) a “systemic” level that views the farm within wider ecosystems of
enterprises building multiple forms of capital; and
4) an “evolutionary” level involving “pattern understanding of the place and
context” within which agriculture takes place.
Rodale Institute
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We can’t talk about Soil Regeneration
and Carbon Sequestration without…
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Western and Indigenous Perspective Split
INDIGENOUS
Reverence for the Unknowns
Natural systems are complex
Kincentric
WESTERN
Unknown should be explored
(almost unacceptable)
We can mimic nature and even do
it better
Anthropocentric
https://www.firstnations.org/publications/recognition-and-support-
of-indigenous-california-land-stewards-practitioners-of-kincentric-
ecology/
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WHAT DO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE KNOW
ABOUT REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE?
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Lets start by reframing….
Non Indigenous people working within regenerative agriculture need to start
by including Indigenous history and practices BEFORE have the ideas about
“agriculture”
terra nullius/
virgo terram
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Reframing
For Indigenous people…..
We need to think about the influences that have westernized the way we care
for our lands and food…
Think USDA programing NRCS
Think reshaping of fields and areas where we grew food
Think of trespassing on land claims..
Timelines! Timelines! Timelines!
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Ishi
Folkways or Adaptability
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Decolonizing Regenerative Agriculture
First Nations Development Institute WebinarSeptember 2020
Mark Muller
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A Decolonizing Journey…
LaDonna Redmond
Ricardo Salvador Little Earth Red Bears
Minneapolis
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Corn and Soybeans and Corn and Soybeans and Corn and…
State of Midwest Agriculture
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Unbalanced Landscapes
Unbalanced Economics
Unbalanced Policies
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Midwest AgricultureFacing Significant Challenges
• 40% of Minnesota Water Bodies Impaired
• The Land Use in Several Counties are 90% Corn and Beans
• Floods! Derechos! Heat!
• Brain Drain
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Cheap Calories
The Agricultural Economy and Agricultural Policy Prioritizes One Item:
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Are We Facing November Gales Like the Edmund Fitzgerald?
How to Incorporate Resiliency into the Landscape?
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Clean Water
We Now Need More from Agriculture
Recreational Opportunities
WildlifeThriving Economy
Climate Mitigation
Healthy Soils
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Healthy Foods
But Wait, There’s More!
Land Reparations
Farmworker Justice
An End to Hunger
Food Sovereignty
Living Wages
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“We seek to uplift expressions of a more indigenous way of thinking, seeing, acting and
working with nature as a foundational principle of scaling up regenerative agriculture with integrity.”
Reginaldo Haslett-MarroquinRegenerative Agriculture AllianceGrantee of Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
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Regenerative Agriculture Needs to Provide Tools…
…And Vision for the World We
Desire
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Organic
Vision
Building a Big Tent
Incremental changeConventional
Tools
Biodynamics
Tranformational change
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
University Research
Certification systems
Market development
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Unleash Brilliant Uncolonized Thinking
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Native American Fiber Program
• Hemp may be the world’s oldest cultivated crop
• Many practical uses under research such as construction material or bio-composite
• Can tribal communities take ownership in the production, processing, and marketing of hemp and other materials?
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Can RAF provide a bridge, increasing awareness of the opportunities for decolonization while increasing
funding for indigenous communities?
Mark Muller - [email protected]
Thank You!
How can RAF best serve as an ally?
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• https://www.firstnations.org/publications/recognition-and-support-of-indigenous-california-land-stewards-practitioners-of-kincentric-ecology/
• https://orionmagazine.org/2020/08/op-ed-we-are-still-here-john-muir-is-not/
• Eating the Landscape by Enrique Solomon
Presentation References and Resources
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