Criteria that define regenerative agriculture, as agreed by the Iberian practicing and scientific community

Regenerative agriculture is becoming established as one of the major alternatives for addressing current environmental and social challenges. However, this rise has not been accompanied by an official certification, which has led companies and other actors to appropriate the term as a greenwashing tool, lacking endorsement from the scientific community and from most regenerative producers.

 

To address this gap, CREAF and the Iberian Regenerative Agriculture Association have developed a reference document that sets out the ten basic criteria defining what real regenerative agriculture is. The document was produced during the REGEN project and has the consensus of nearly 200 producers, organizations, and sector representatives, as well as scientists from universities and research centers across Spain.