­­We Greet Each Other “Happy New Year!” But We Do Not Plan To Change Our Bad Habits, Including Poisoning Our Earth!

I am a UP Los Baños graduate (1965) and the Internet hound that you didn’t know since 1991; I confess that I have never met a more exciting development in the whole field of agriculture than Regenerative Agriculture (RA), in which

the solution to the poverty of our farmers and
the resolution of the excesses of our climate
lies in the exact same human act.

Yes: The upper image dramatizes the devastation caused by chemical farming, not easily recognized.

No: The lower image tempts the farmer to reach bounty and beauty by natural means.

Explaining the two images, I say:

Chemical Agriculture – “Man’s chemicals yield plenty of abused soil and poisoned foods.”

Regenerative Agriculture – “Mother Nature yields plenty of green & gold – & beauty.”

I wonder why our farmers do not realize the blighting of modern farming via chemicals? (top image). In the first place, our agriculturists are not telling them! Don’t they know themselves?

Here are “Most Unknown FACTS you and 98% Didn’t Know” – there are no names of people attached or called authors or originators of the post (I have since loved this post of 2025 Jan 03):

Regenerative Agriculture restores soil health, promotes biodiversity, and creates sustainable food systems. Unlike industrial farming, it works with nature to ensure long-term abundance and environmental resilience.

We worry about Climate Change but we do not worry about Industrial Farming, what I call “Chemical Agriculture” (CA), despite the fact that CA helps bring about Climate Change because it produces greenhouse gases (GHGs), and it is the GHGs that produce the “greenhouse effect “ that produces Climate Change!

It seems nobody talks or write about “Regenerative Agriculture” in my country, the Philippines, except me, an Agriculturist, UP Los Baños graduate 1965 (2.36 weighted average). (I had grades of “1,” equals “Excellent” but also “5,” equals “Failed”). That single semester, I was not minding my course anymore; I was minding my girlfriend!

In this analogy, my failed love is now equivalent to CA that has failed the farmers! In my love case, I was already 100% neglecting my studies while 100% attending to my girlfriend; in the chemical agriculture case, our farmers are neglecting the damage to the soil and the climate while enjoying higher harvests.

Have we ignored the potentials of RA? The answer: No! “Agro-Eco Philippines Helps Transition Filipino Farmers to Agroecological and Organic Regenerative Practices” (19 Aug 2020, Oliver Gardiner, Regeneration International, regenerationinternational.org). Regeneration International (RI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Filipino League of Organic Municipalities Cities and Provinces (LOAMCP) and RI.

Today, the non-profit government organization (NGO) works with 4,000 individual farmers in 300 farmers’ organizations in Mindanao, eastern Visayas and eastern Luzon.

Its mission is to advocate for Filipino’s right to healthy food, alleviate hunger in poverty-stricken farming communities and teach farmers organic regenerative and agroecological practices that produce healthy food, increase the socio-economic livelihood of farmers, and build resilience against the effects of climate change.

Ah, Regenerative Agriculture – here we come!@517