Author: Jean Hugo

Modern technology now dominates agriculture, but its large-scale, industrial methods have caused significant environmental damage. This includes soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and increased greenhouse gas emissions. Traditional African farming, transformed by colonial influence, now faces sustainability challenges. Regenerative agriculture offers a solution by emphasizing eco-friendly practices that enhance biodiversity, soil health, and carbon capture, promoting sustainable, small-scale farming to ensure food security and rural resilience.

Modern farming has led to significant soil degradation and loss of fertility impacting on human health and harming natural ecosystems. Today there is a move towards eco-friendly farming that has the restoration of natural systems in mind. I this Post we distinguish between Permaculture, Integrated Organic Farming, Natural Farming and Regenerative Farming.

Although it is true that technical development has been(and largely is) responsible for the environmental crisis, the possibility thattechnology could also become an important solution of the crisis, should not be overlooked.