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When soil is healthy, it not only stores carbon, but helps farmer livelihoods, communities, and ecosystems become more resilient, improving water availability and quality too.   Since so many of the fashion, textile, and apparel industry’s raw materials come from the land, it has a huge opportunity – and responsibility – to build resilience from the ground up.   As reported in our 2022 Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis, “regenerative agriculture holds immense promise for a range of co-benefits, including overall soil health, biodiversity, water availability and quality, animal welfare, and community resilience and livelihoods.”   Earlier this year, we followed up this report with our Regenerative Agriculture Outcome Framework, which lays out some of the key indicators that make for a regenerative system. It aims to foster collaboration by including expectations for both brands and growers while respecting the knowledge of local communities and Indigenous peoples.   Find out more about the outcomes that we should be looking for in regenerative farming systems in our Regenerative Agriculture Outcome Framework https://lnkd.in/d-uuwWVC →   #WorldSoilDay 📷 Joya Berrow