How does regenerative agriculture increase biodiversity?

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Aisha Hassan and Lukas Paltanavičius are cycling across the world to learn hands-on about practices of regenerative agriculture. In a series of articles, they will share their insights from the field. In this guest article they uncover how regenerative agriculture helps to increase biodiversity.

Along their journey, Aisha and Lucas met many regenerative farmers. But what prompted those farmers to adopt the practice?

In 2020, Paul and Janine Raabe started the community farm Hof Lebensberg in the Northern Palatinate, Germany after concluding that the only tangible way they could combat climate change was to create their own inherently sustainable ecosystem.

Also working as regenerative agroforestry consultants, the couple soon realised that the market was not providing nursery trees of the right species, quality, or price. Hoping to facilitate the spread of agroforestry and make it scalable for other farmers to implement, they decided to established the tree nursery ‘Ackerbaum’ in 2018, looking to fulfill the demand generated by their consultancy clients.