Will RegenAg be given the chance to feed the world?

[onesiedale]

About a month ago I was quite confident that the RegenAg / Holistic management message was beginning to filter through into mainstream Ag.
However, the outlook for food production/consumption is now looking drastically different.
Mother Earth may be starting to breathe more comfortably from a reduction in fossil fuel emissions. However, Supermarkets are suddenly the critical link in the food chain
and there are cries for food security to be pushed up the national agenda ahead of the environment.
When the dust settles on this Covid-19 episode, the ego's of a good many food producers will be fuelled by a supply trade pumped full of subsidies and 0% loans eager to get industry moving again.
Who are the policy makers really going to listen to? There will be some serious lobbying in Westminster that will be hoping to re-create the agriculture act of '47 to solve all the problems that were created the first time round.
What would you like to see as the Ag outcome of the current pandemic?
And how do we stop the policy makers from dishing out a whole load of encouragement to make the same mistakes all over again?

 

[David_A]

The problems created by and with 'conventional' food production will still exist once covid 19 has passed. Personally I think regen ag will gain a greater foothold. Our soils will still deteriorate until we change.