New Horizons November 2019 | Page 22

Of the panellists, Durukan Dudu, Co-founder of Anadolu Meraları (Anatolian Pastures), said: “Through our agricultural methods carried on for thousands of years, we have released the soil’s carbon to the atmosphere. If we can give it back to soil, we can both reinvigorate the agriculture and substantially prevent the climate crisis. Regenerative agriculture means to heal the soil in all aspects while we engage in agriculture. Now the thing we must do is to heal, i.e. regenerate.”

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