Changing Federal Data Control to Aid Regenerative Agriculture

September 12, 2024

Agriculture is a major driver of climate change, and NPR reports that business and government are looking to so-called regenerative agriculture for possible solutions. In Issues, Aude K. Chesnais and a group of Indigenous and allied scholars explore how traditional Native American practices, including restoring bison populations and using fire and waterscaping, can promote an important climate-protecting goal: the long-term, large-scale storage of carbon in soils. As a key step, the authors call for changes in federal “colonial policies” still controlling tribal access to geographic and agricultural data to aid local decisionmaking and sovereign land stewardship.

Posted by Tom Burroughs