Good afternoon everyone. Uh so I'm going to start by taking you to party block of Bwani district of Madhya Pradesh. What you see here is a story of heartbreaking loss.The soil is parched. The top soil is gone. Land is parched.The rainwater that falls rushes away. This land is no longer productive. 50% of the land in Badwani district is no longer productive primarily due to water erosion. And Badwani is not the only district in India where this is happening.Millions of hectares of land across India is like t ...

The Trump administration is launching a $700 million pilot program to help farmers more easily adopt “regenerative” practices that improve the health of soil and water. https://t.co/DTKrjfn1vy ...

My name is Robert Quinn Holland. I'm a brother, a son, a friend, a boyfriend, a two-time MSU alum, and the co-founder of New Tracks, a company that is helping agriculture take market share from healthcare. I'm here tonight because your health is important to me.Man is what he eats. According to the CDC, chronic disease costs the United States approximately $4.4% trillion annually. Yet, the World Health Organization tells us that about 80% of that is preventable with food and exercise alone, though mostly nu ...

How do we care for the land. Really care for the land [snorts] as a way to prepare for the extremes such as fires, droughts, and more. In 2018, my family and I moved to Altadena into a home nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.After learning what it meant to live in a high fire risk zone, I began to imagine what would it look like if fire were to come towards us from those mountains. What kind of landscape might prevent the loss of our home. So, we began to landscape by harvesting water.We built ...

the land as a way to prepare for the extremes such as fires, droughts, and more. In 2018, my family and I moved to Altadena into a home nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. After learning what it meant to live in a high fire risk zone, I began to imagine what would it look like if fire were to come towards us from those mountains.What kind of landscape might prevent the loss of our home. So, we began to landscape by harvesting water. We built mounds of strategically and thoughtfully layered log ...