Regen Reflections Webinar Series: A collective journey to scale regenerative agriculture
22nd August 2024
SAI Platform and Cool Farm are thrilled to announce the launch of Regen Reflections, an innovative member-only webinar series. Hosted by Robyn Cooper, Crops Manager at SAI Platform and Daniella Malin, Co-founder and Head of Impact and Collaboration at Cool Farm, the series is designed to inspire action and assist the SAI Platform and Cool Farm communities in navigating the journey to regenerative agriculture.
At its core, the series traces a collective ‘learning journey’, over the course of eight impactful sessions, tracking the process that member organisations are embarking on to transition to regenerative agriculture. It forms the flagship component of the ‘Transition Support’ offering from SAI Platform and builds on Cool Farm’s ‘Measurement that Counts’ impact report to take that work forward. Taking a practical approach, the series aims to grow the collective capability of member organisations to implement and scale regenerative agriculture in their value chains.
SAI Platform and Cool Farm have been collaborating increasingly closely over the past year and the joint webinar series represents an exciting evolution for the partnership. By combining expertise and resources the organisations can achieve more together than they ever could alone.
Kicking off: the first session
The first session, held in July, set the tone for the series by anchoring the community in what inspires individuals and member organisations to contribute to the regenerative agriculture movement.
It reinforced a collective commitment to create solutions that are fit for purpose across all global contexts and to distinguish the focus on regenerative agriculture from ‘just another sector trend’, to driving a whole ‘system shift’. This grounding will prove valuable as the focus shifts to the more technical and practical aspects in future sessions.
What to expect next
The upcoming sessions will follow the different steps identified by member organisations in the participatory work and outlined in SAI Platform’s Regenerating Together Transition Support Guide:
Getting Resourced will explore what it takes to put value chain resilience on the bottom line, making the internal case for change and mobilising resources, both internal and external, to achieve the members’ sustainability targets.
Getting Grounded will focus on the importance of co-creating the solution with farmers and other value chain partners, to ensure that it meets farmers’ needs as a priority and is flexible enough to be adapted to the local context.
Getting Results will explore the technical challenges and solutions available to measure and track progress against the four core impact areas as defined in the Regenerating Together Framework: soil health, biodiversity, water, and climate.
Achieving a Just Transition will focus on understanding how to improve equality and share risk equitably across value chains. Practically, we will consider how farm level transition roadmaps and MRV methods can be delivered in a way that builds resilience and improves livelihoods for farmers across a range of contexts.
Reaching the Tipping Point will explore scale. With best practice examples featured in previous sessions, this session will take an honest look at what it will take to close remaining gaps and to extend this work across diverse value chains and the global farmer majority.
Tying it All Together will tie the action on the ground to the corporate claims that can be made, exploring issues of trust, transparency, assurance and translatability in relation to the increased complexity that comes with regenerative agriculture systems and the standards that try to encourage them.
Join Us!
The series promises to be a lively, honest, and insightful exploration of what it takes to build a more regenerative food system. Whether you’re just starting your journey or are already deep in the process, these sessions will offer valuable insights and practical guidance.
Register here now for the next session, ‘Making the Internal Case for Change’ taking place on 19th September at 4pm CET.
