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Ronnie Cummins

Ronnie Cummins is the founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, US- based network of more than two million consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and commerce. Cummins also serves on the steering committee of Regeneration International and OCA’s Mexican affiliate, Vía Orgánica. He is the author of Grassroots Rising (Chelsea Green Publishing, February 2020).

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What U.S. Farming Can Do to Stop Climate Change

By Ronnie Cummins, YES! magazine

However, for the Green New Deal to accomplish its climate goals, it must spur two large-scale transitions: the transition away from fossil fuel use toward renewable energy, and the transition away from industrial agriculture, a huge polluter and greenhouse gas emitter in its own right, toward organic regenerative practices that draw down and sequester carbon.

  • February 28, 2020
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Grassroots Rising (Excerpt)

By Ronnie Cummins, Resilience.org

The primarily low-tech, shovel-ready, affordable solutions that we need already exist in every nation and region. We don’t need to invent new techniques. We simply need to identify, publicize, replicate, and scale up currently existing best practices utilizing farmer-to-farmer education and training, with major support and funding from the public and private sectors.

  • February 11, 2020
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The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

By Ronnie Cummins, Local Futures

We’re never going to reach net zero emissions in the U.S. by 2030, as the Green New Deal calls for, without a profound change, in fact a revolution, in our food, farming, and land use practices.

  • July 29, 2019

How Regenerative Food and Farming Can Reverse Rural Poverty and Forced Migration in the Americas

By Ronnie Cummins, Common Dreams

At the recent regional Summit on Migrants and Returnees in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala, October 20-21, a new and promising solution to the global “immigration crisis” emerged: the creation of local, grassroots-powered economic development projects based on regenerative food, farming and land-use practices. Regenerative food and farming is the new gold standard for climate and environmentally friendly agriculture and land use across the world.

  • November 6, 2017

Regenerative Agriculture: The Next Stage of Organic Food and Farming—and Civilization

By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association

Regenerative agriculture and land use encompass the traditional and indigenous best practices of organic farming, animal husbandry and environmental conservation. Regeneration puts a central focus on improving soil health and fertility (recarbonizing the soil), increasing biodiversity, and qualitatively enhancing forest health, animal welfare, food nutrition and rural (especially small farmer) prosperity.

  • June 6, 2017

Climate catastrophe: Surviving the 21st century

By Ronnie Cummins, Will Allen, Common Dreams

A cultural and political revolution will empower us to to carry out a deep and profound retrofitting of industry, government, education, health care, housing, neighborhoods, transportation, food and farming systems, as well as our diets and lifestyles.

  • February 15, 2010
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