In episode 1 of the Resource Positive Agriculture podcast, host and Executive Director of the Potato Sustainability Alliance, John Mesko, shares the meaning behind resource positive agriculture. Mesko brings over 30 years of positive agriculture experience to the table. He has had the opportunity to see all sides of agriculture working in a wide variety of roles all over the U.S. and Canada.
In agriculture, the words we use (e.g., sustainable, organic, and regenerative) often have evolving or confusing meanings. More times than not, people will interpret the definitions and purposes differently. When we argue about definitions, the agriculture community becomes more fractured, and meanings then become meaningless. The negative attraction doesn’t serve well in conversations with consumers, investors, and others genuinely interested in food and farming.
Now is the time to keep focused on the long-term goal, which is to move agriculture forward positively. Resource positive agriculture describes what we all want and an agriculture system that makes full and responsible use of the natural world and honors the scientific, technological, and societal advances we’ve achieved.
The goal is a food and farming system that can expand productivity and quality to meet the globe’s current and future needs. Resource positive agriculture takes all the resources involved into account – soil and water, carbon, for example – and technological, human, and community resources.
Join us on this positive agriculture journey as we will be bringing you commentary from industry leaders all across our community. The hope is that you will learn more and hopefully think more due to listening.
https://potatosustainability.org/episode-1-what-is-resource-positive-agriculture/