#regenerative-agriculture

🇵🇪 Peru · AGUAPAN (Asociación de Guardianes de Papa Nativa del Centro del Perú)

Quechua and mestizo highland farmers organized into a self-governed association to keep thousands of native Andean potato varieties alive in the ground, not just in gene banks.

🇹🇬 Togo · APAF-Togo (Association pour la Promotion des Arbres Fertilitaires, de l'Agroforesterie et de la Foresterie)

Trains Togolese farmers to interplant nitrogen-fixing fertility trees in their fields, rebuilding soil, income and forest cover at the same time.

🌍 Global · Sistema.bio

A Mexico-founded biodigester company turns farm and livestock waste into clean cooking gas and fertilizer for smallholder farmers across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

🇦🇹 Austria · Biosphärenpark Nockberge

Since Austria's first national park here gave way to a UNESCO biosphere reserve, the Carinthian Nockberge have shown that centuries-old alpine farming and rare grassland biodiversity can thrive side by side.

🇧🇷 Brazil · MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra)

Latin America's largest social movement, born from land occupations in the 1980s, has helped hundreds of thousands of landless rural families win legal title to farmland through Brazil's agrarian reform program.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · International Crane Foundation

Tram Chim kept its water high to look like a healthy wetland, and the eastern sarus cranes stopped coming; now the park is drying it on purpose and flying birds in from Thailand.

🇧🇮 Burundi · ADISCO (Appui au Développement Intégral et à la Solidarité sur les Collines)

ADISCO organizes Burundian smallholders into cooperatives and health mutuals so coffee farming builds lasting prosperity, not just export revenue.

🌍 Global · CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education)

Young African women who once relied on CAMFED scholarships to finish school now lead a UN award-winning movement teaching climate-smart farming to rural communities.

🇬🇩 Grenada · Cocoa Farming Future Initiative (CFFI)

After two hurricanes wiped out Grenada's cocoa farms, a farmer-founded nonprofit began regrafting and replanting organic cocoa trees to rebuild growers' incomes and the island's signature crop.

🇿🇲 Zambia · COMACO

Zambian social enterprise turning former poachers and subsistence farmers into sustainable growers through its It's Wild! food brand.

🇺🇸 United States · Camphill Village Copake

America's oldest Camphill community, where adults with developmental disabilities live, farm, and garden together on a 750-acre biodynamic homestead in New York's Hudson Valley.

🌍 Global · Sustainable Fibre Alliance

The Sustainable Fibre Alliance certifies cashmere herders in Mongolia and China against a standard that ties market access to rangeland health, tackling overgrazing driven by global demand for cashmere goats.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Laboratorio de Restauración Ecológica, UNAM

Mexico City's last Aztec-era floating farms are being rebuilt as clean-water refuges for the axolotl — and the farmers who maintain them are the conservation strategy.

🇬🇪 Georgia · Biological Farming Association Elkana

Georgian farmers rebuilt a organic-farming union from 9 founding members into a nationwide network that is bringing indigenous Caucasus wheat varieties, wiped out under Soviet collectivization, back into highland fields.

🇧🇼 Botswana · Ecoexist Trust

Ecoexist Trust helps Okavango farmers protect their harvests and livelihoods so both people and Botswana's elephants can thrive side by side.

🇪🇸 Spain · Pau Costa Foundation

Catalan shepherds get paid in meat and cheese, not cash, for grazing their flocks through fire-critical corridors mapped by the region's firefighters.

🇷🇴 Romania · Fundatia ADEPT (Agricultural Development and Environmental Protection in Transylvania)

A Saschiz-based foundation works with farmers to keep Transylvania's flower-rich hay meadows mown and grazed the old way, protecting one of Europe's last great semi-natural grasslands.

🇷🇼 Rwanda · Gardens for Health International

In Rwanda's health centers, families identified as malnourished are trained to grow their own vegetables instead of waiting on food aid.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Mongolian Rangeland Research Center (Green Gold)

A 16-year Swiss-backed program organized Mongolian herders into pasture-user groups that rested millions of hectares of overgrazed steppe back to health.

🇧🇮 Burundi · Association Burundaise pour la Protection de la Nature (ABN)

Burundi's national BirdLife partner mobilizes highland farming communities to replant the river catchments that keep Lake Tanganyika from silting and salting up.

🇲🇩 Moldova · Moldova Organic Value Chain Alliance (MOVCA)

Moldova's first and largest organic-farming alliance is helping vintners and smallholders convert prized cernozem soil to certified organic production.

🇱🇸 Lesotho · Growing Nations

A Basotho-run NGO teaches mountain farmers 'likoti' planting-basin conservation agriculture that is reviving eroded soils and multiplying maize harvests across Lesotho's highlands.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Justdiggit

Justdiggit mobilizes African farmers and pastoralists to dig water-harvesting bunds and regrow trees from living stumps, regreening hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded drylands.

🇮🇳 India · Kheti Virasat Mission

A former journalist's grassroots mission is replacing Punjab's smoke-choked stubble fires with mulching, composting, and organic farming.

🇳🇵 Nepal · Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD)

A Pokhara-based NGO helps Himalayan hill and mountain farmers run their own community seed banks, keeping climate-resilient local rice, taro and yam landraces from disappearing.

🇵🇭 Philippines · MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura)

A farmer-scientist alliance safeguarding the Philippines' rice heritage by collecting, breeding and freely sharing thousands of traditional and climate-resilient rice varieties.

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Plant With Purpose

Dominican farm families are replanting degraded mountain watersheds with cacao, avocado, and mango trees, cutting poverty while rebuilding the forest canopy.

🇬🇷 Greece · Society for the Protection of Prespa

Water buffalo and cattle are the conservation machinery here: grazed back into shape, the wet meadows of Lesser Prespa now hold the largest breeding colony of Dalmatian pelicans on Earth.

🇨🇭 Switzerland · Pro Specie Rara

Since 1982, this Swiss foundation has kept old alpine grain, vegetable and fruit varieties and mountain livestock breeds alive by growing them, not just storing them, on working farms.

🇺🇸 United States · Malpai Borderlands Group

A collaborative of Arizona-New Mexico borderlands ranchers invented "grassbanking" — trading grazing rest on drought-hit ranches for conservation easements — to keep nearly a million acres of open range intact and productive.

🇮🇳 India · Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

WOTR mobilizes villages across India's drought-prone drylands to build check-dams, contour trenches and ponds that recharge groundwater and bring barren common land back into production.

🇧🇴 Bolivia · Fundación Natura Bolivia

Bolivian farmers protect the forests that feed their taps, paid in beehives and fruit trees instead of cash.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Rede de Sementes do Cerrado (RSC)

A Brasília-based seed network pays indigenous, family-farmer and urban collectors to harvest native Cerrado grasses and wildflowers, turning them back into standing savanna.

🇦🇷 Argentina · Ovis 21

Ovis 21 turned holistic planned grazing into a certified regenerative wool supply chain that is healing over a million hectares of Patagonia's historically overgrazed sheep-ranching grasslands.

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast · AGRO-MAP

An Ivorian nature-based-solutions company is planting millions of trees with cocoa farmers to claw back forest lost to decades of cocoa expansion.

🇳🇪 Niger · World Vision Australia — Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)

Agronomist Tony Rinaudo's simple technique of pruning living tree stumps instead of planting saplings has regrown forest cover across roughly 5 million hectares of Niger's farmland.

🇲🇱 Mali · Sahel Eco

Malian farmers are turning back the desert and rebuilding food security using centuries-old tree-regeneration techniques revived by a homegrown Sahelian NGO.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Associação Caatinga

Associação Caatinga restores Brazil's semi-arid Caatinga biome using a long-root seedling technique that more than doubles tree survival on degraded, drought-hit land.

🇬🇪 Georgia · CENN (Caucasus Environmental NGO Network)

A Tbilisi-based NGO wrote Georgia's first National Forest Policy and now helps mountain villages manage their forests sustainably instead of stripping them for firewood.

🇸🇰 Slovakia · People and Water (Ľudia a voda)

A Slovak NGO's low-cost check dams, ponds and swales rewet drought-cracked farmland, restoring the landscape's natural water cycle one village at a time.

🇸🇾 Syria · Syria Forest Foundation

A Washington-founded diaspora nonprofit is rebuilding Syria's war-battered olive and pistachio orchards, one nursery and farmer cooperative at a time.

🇩🇿 Algeria · Association pour la Protection de l'Environnement de Béni-Isguen (APEB)

In a Saharan oasis founded on ancestral water and palm-grove wisdom, a local association is training a new generation in agroecology and composting.

🇩🇪 Germany · Michael Succow Foundation

Drained peat soils are one of Europe's largest hidden carbon leaks, and this Greifswald foundation floods them back while teaching farmers to grow crops in the wet.

🌍 Global · Rikolto

Rikolto partners with farmer cooperatives on four continents to build fairer, more sustainable food value chains from rice to cocoa to coffee.

🇺🇬 Uganda · Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect (formerly Send a Cow) has trained East African smallholder families since 1988 to farm sustainably, restore degraded land and build lasting food security.

🇫🇷 France · Réseau Semences Paysannes (French Farmers' Seed Network)

A nationwide alliance of more than 70 French farmer and gardener organizations working to keep peasant seed varieties in circulation outside the industrial seed trade.

🇪🇬 Egypt · SEKEM

A biodynamic farming initiative outside Cairo has spent nearly five decades proving that Egypt's desert can be turned into living soil without a drop of synthetic chemicals.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Sahara Forest Project

Norwegian-designed facility in Jordan's desert growing vegetables using seawater-cooled greenhouses and concentrated solar power.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Sanergy

Social enterprise converting fecal sludge from Nairobi's informal settlements into organic fertilizer, insect protein and biogas.

🇦🇺 Australia · Bush Heritage Australia

On a former sheep and cattle property south of Canberra, conservationists are rebuilding critically endangered natural temperate grassland paddock by paddock.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Seed Savers Network Kenya

A Kenyan farmer network that has revived dozens of vanishing indigenous crop varieties by building a nationwide web of community seed banks.

🌍 Global · Slow Food

Founded in Italy to fight fast food's spread, this grassroots network now defends local farmers, biodiversity and food traditions in 160 countries.

🇲🇼 Malawi · Soils, Food and Healthy Communities (SFHC)

A farmer-led Malawian nonprofit, Soils, Food and Healthy Communities uses participatory research to spread agroecology techniques that improve nutrition and food security.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · UNDO

UNDO spreads crushed volcanic basalt across farmland so rainfall reactions pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and lock it into stable carbonate minerals for millennia.

🇧🇯 Benin · Songhaï Centre

Songhaï Centre turns organic waste into thriving farms, training hundreds of young Africans a year in profitable, chemical-free agriculture.

🇼🇸 Samoa · Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI)

Since 1991, Samoan village women have turned certified-organic coconut oil and hand-woven fine mats into a global supply chain.

🇦🇹 Austria · Verein Ökoregion Kaindorf

A grassroots Styrian association built one of Europe's first voluntary carbon-certificate markets that pays farmers directly for every tonne of CO2 they lock back into their soil.