We don’t think Big, Bigger, Biggest! We think, but we think small, that’s all! 
(image from zamisyakoby.com)

We think like any of these: Lower price of rice. Higher salary of teachers. Olympic golds for our athletes. Helping farmers after “El Niño” or “La Niña.” Farmer coops producing their own organic fertilizer.

Right now, I’m thinking of “Primate Change for Climate Change.” I just remembered I had a blog I called “Primate Change” and it turns out I created that 17 years ago, in 2007 (primatechange.blogspot.com); it has 1,533 articles, each 517 words long.

People! With my blog Primate Change, in 2007 I was already thinking of Climate Change – what we primates could do to prevent devastating losses in the farms due to “El Niño” or “La Niña.”

Even I was not thinking big enough! In the 1980s, Robert Rodale of the Rodale Institute in the US came up with what he termed “Regenerative Agriculture” as a common term for farming & gardening practices that avoided chemical fertilizers and pesticides. He was thinking Big.

Right now, let me think Big and show you my list of Regenerative Agriculture, where all crops are acceptable: agri-biotech, genetically modified (GMO), heirloom, hybrid, inbred, native – including trees:

1, Cover Cropping
2, Crop Rotation
3, Farm Crops + Tree Crops (Agroforestry)
4, Green Manuring
5, Highly Ecological Rotavation (HEro) (from FAH)
6, Intercropping
7, Multiple Cropping
8, No-Till Farming
9, Organic Fertilization
10, Ratooning
11, Rotational Grazing
12, “Three Sisters” Planting
13, Trap Cropping
14, Trash Mulching.

Why this series under Regenerative Agriculture (RA)? To popularize RA as it is an alternative to Chemical Agriculture (CA), where CA comprises mostly the application of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides, which are known to generate greenhouse gases (GHGs), that which are known to generate the “Greenhouse Effect” that ultimately results in devastating dry months (courtesy of “El Niño”) and very destructive wet months (courtesy of “La Niña”). This is known as “Climate Change” (CA) – it is the practices of CA that bring about Climate Change. If you did not know that, you have not been thinking Big enough!

What we need to do is Primate Change – people! We primates need to change our ways in agriculture in order to save ourselves!

Farmer Poverty – if we resolve Climate Change via Regenerative Agriculture, we will solve Farmer Poverty because the costs in RA are very low and the returns are very high. The foods produced are also healthy and therefore attractive to consumers. The consumers benefit much; the farmers benefit much more!

And the country benefits much, much more because “El Niño” (devastating drought) and “La Niña” (devastating floods) will become much less powerful and therefore less destructive.

Whatever! The bigger thing to me is that Regenerative Agriculture (RA) solves Farmer Poverty – by the very fact that any of the practices under RA costs much less than any of the practices under CA and, therefore, the returns are much more!

Let’s think more, not less!@517