Measuring Regeneration: Beyond data and metrics

About this episode

The episode explores the complexities of measuring regeneration in agriculture, emphasizing the challenges of establishing standards and validity.

Welcome back everyone to the second of the Deep Dive episodes. In this new format the intention is to bring complexity back into the conversations around regenerative agriculture. Myself and many of my peers have been observing the discourse online, and especially on social media devolve into catch phrases and buzz words with little meaning and I want to embrace the complexity and many perspectives around many of the topics that get debated online. We’ll be testing out a mix of investigative journalism, key interview snippets, and narrative weaving, not to assert a single stance on any issue, but rather to guide listeners through the fact that there are rarely any easy answers and that there’s so much more to these conversations than the over-simplified arguments that we gloss over on click-bait titles and polarizing debates.You may remember in the last Deep Dive, we looked into the question of WHO has the authority and credentials to say what Regeneration is. As a continuation to this question, today we’ll be exploring HOW to measure the journey of regeneration. One thing is to establish standards and validity, but as we’ll see in these discussions, this is much harder to do…

People in this episode

Host: Oliver Goshey

Topics covered

• regenerative agriculture
• measurement
• complexity
• standards
• discourse
• investigative journalism

Keywords

• regeneration
• measurement
• agriculture
• complexity
• discourse
• monitoring
• reporting
• verification

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Climate Farmers

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