Regulatory Illusion

Some thirty years ago, one of the organic pioneers, Carl Haest, said about sustainable agriculture, “friend in the field, foe in the market”. That seems to hold also for regenerative agriculture.

Shane has been busy with the next generation on and off the farm too, visiting schools with a herd of Old Irish Goats. Once a common sight in the Irish countryside, this rare native breed is helping to revive a cultural heritage that has lessons to teach us today, on biodiversity, wildfire management, and the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.

A climate doctrine must integrate resource mobilization, agricultural modernization, energy diversification, and territorial planning within a coherent framework—one that anticipates rather than reacts, protects rather than repairs, and organizes rather than fragments.