Direct grants to small-scale farmers reduced transition risk for regenerative practices across 73,000 US acres in 2025. Now the work shifts from capital deployment to storytelling — connecting eaters to the human systems behind soil governance.
As U.S. and Israeli forces strike Iran, the Climate Justice Alliance frames military action as ecological governance failure — the U.S. military remains the world's largest institutional emitter while resource extraction drives geopolitical conflict.
Ballintean Mountain Lodge, a 30-year rewilding experiment in the Cairngorms, joins the European Rewilding Network — a move that underscores how ecological restoration increasingly operates through distributed governance: peer learning, knowledge exchange, and practice-led networks rather than top-down mandates.
A regional French programme letting forests and wetlands recover without human interference joins a network of 105 rewilding initiatives — advancing a governance model where ecosystems manage themselves.
Over 20 hectares and 18,000 plants later, Jungle Project demonstrates how governance begins with land stewardship — training 22 farmers in regenerative agroforestry while building the market infrastructure to sustain it.