The current food system faces significant environmental and social challenges; it is a major contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss and fails to support global food security and dignified agrifood livelihoods. Regenerative agriculture aims to mitigate these conditions
by actively restoring food and farming systems, using a holistic framework to continuously renew the land, improve the overall environment, and support agrifood economies, societies, and cultures.
This system of farming principles and food practices focuses on the following areas to generate resilient systems:

• soil fertility, nutrient cycling, and health,

• water quality,

• biodiversity,

• ecosystem health,

• carbon sequestration,

• social connections and political participation

• local economies

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The EDUFAN symposium bridges economic, social, and environmental sciences to identify sustainable and equitable solutions to food system and ecosystem challenges.