Research
Understanding how to transition smallholder farmers to regenerative agriculture requires both generating new knowledge and making existing research accessible. Our research initiatives work on both fronts — producing original resources that advance the field, and breaking down the barriers that keep critical smallholder research out of reach for the farmers, practitioners, and policymakers who need it most.
Regenerative Agriculture Research Enterprise (RARE)
We have undertaken extensive research into deploying AI to help access existing but restricted smallholder field research, make it freely available in multiple languages, and creating a pathway for new field research in smallholder regenerative and sustainable methodologies. This research was published as a RARE Feasibility Study in 2025.
That study led to RARE Africa, which is in development now and will create the first open, multilingual, AI-ready scientific corpus of African smallholder regenerative and sustainable agriculture research. The platform unlocks field research from restricted university, government, and NGO repositories across Africa, while coordinating new smallholder sustainable agriculture studies through a continental Regional Network, making this research freely accessible to AI advisory systems, farmers, extension agents, and researchers worldwide.
Click HERE or on the image above to read the full study.
Regenerative Agriculture Global Reports
A groundbreaking series of Regenerative Agriculture Global Reports were sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation and co-edited by Tim Tensen and Hugh Locke. This set of seven reports explores the definition, implementation, verification and scaling of regenerative agriculture, with a particular focus on smallholder agriculture and including input from smallholder farmers themselves.
