With mainstream farming techniques, yields have increased significantly, providing our world's expanding population with affordable food. Agriculture still has a big impact on the environment, the climate, and other things. Regenerative and productive agriculture scaling can lower and even reverse these costs. Additionally, increasing productivity, restoring ecosystem function and natural capital, reducing reliance on inputs, and even broadening the farm's revenue streams to include carbon and ecosystem service payments might increase farm resilience and profitability. Better land management techniques and technologies can significantly increase agricultural productivity.
These can lessen the number of resources used, the inputs used in agriculture, and their environmental effects. In addition, higher productivity may theoretically free up more land for conservation. While the use of remotely collected data to inform land management and inputs, on-farm autonomous equipment and variable-rate technology, new genomics insights and tools, and a variety of improvements in breeding, feeding, and pasture practices are among the emerging technologies, practices like no-till cropping and controlled traffic farming have already been widely adopted.
