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Regen10 Story

What We Do 

Regen10 is a multi-stakeholder initiative working to shift global food systems toward regenerative and equitable outcomes. We do this by creating shared reference points, building evidence, and equipping diverse actors – from farmers to businesses to policymakers – with the tools and alignment needed to advance regenerative and agroecological transitions at scale. 

We address a critical problem: the regenerative agriculture movement is fragmented. Multiple frameworks exist, many prioritizing environmental metrics while overlooking more complex social and governance dimensions. Most focus on prescribed practices rather than context-specific outcomes, and few center the experiences and priorities of farmers and other land stewards. This fragmentation creates confusion, enables greenwashing, and leaves farmers navigating competing demands without clarity on what matters or why, or the capacity to advocate for their priorities. 

Regen10 exists to build coherence without imposing uniformity – providing shared structures for defining regenerative outcomes while ensuring transitions are locally–led, economically viable, and grounded in farmer and land stewards’ realities. 

Our Approach 

We believe the path to regenerative food systems at scale requires three things: clarity on what regenerative outcomes look like across contexts, evidence on what enables or blocks transitions, and alignment among the diverse actors whose decisions shape food systems. 

Regen10 delivers this by: 

  • Developing shared reference points – The Regen10 Outcomes Framework provides a globally co-developed reference structure for what regenerative agrifood systems can and should deliver, enabling alignment without prescribing uniform approaches 
  • Testing tools in real-world conditions – Place-based landscape engagements validate how our frameworks and methodologies work for farmers and landscape actors, refining them based on lived experience 
  • Building transition evidence – Transition Pathways analyses and cost-benefit methodologies help actors understand the economics, trade-offs, and enabling conditions for regenerative and agroecological transitions 
  • Convening for alignment – We bring together farmers, Indigenous Peoples, businesses, civil society, and policymakers to reduce fragmentation and coordinate action 
  • Equipping local leadership – We develop convening protocols and capacity-building approaches that enable local actors to lead their own regenerative planning 

This work is grounded in Regen10’s ten core principles that hold farmer-centricity, equity, and inclusion at the center of everything we do. 

The Regen10 Outcomes Framework 

The Regen10 Outcomes Framework is our foundational tool – a farmer-centric, globally co-developed reference for what regenerative agrifood systems can and should deliver across both farm and landscape levels. 

Developed through extensive consultations, dialogues, and trials, including farmers’ groups, Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, conservation bodies, civil society, and businesses, the Framework was released as a zero draft in December 2023. Since then, it has been tested and refined across diverse geographies to understand how farmers use it and what outcomes matter most in different contexts. 

The Framework serves two core purposes: 

As a shared vision – It helps actors across the food system align on regenerative ambition while retaining flexibility to adapt to local realities. Whether informing farmer decisions, guiding landscape transition planning, shaping investment and program strategies, or supporting food systems alignment, the Outcomes Framework provides common reference points without dictating practices or metrics. 

As a credibility reference – It enables evaluation of tools, standards, and claims against a holistic set of regenerative outcomes, supporting transparency and accountability across the ecosystem without enforcing compliance. 

The revised Framework will be publicly released in 2026, accompanied by guidance on how different actors can apply it to support regenerative and agroecological transitions in their contexts. 

Understanding Transition Costs and Pathways 

Regenerative transitions require understanding not just desired outcomes, but the economic realities farmers face. Through Transition Pathways analyses across six landscapes producing the world’s most consumed foods, we’ve examined the costs, barriers, and enabling conditions for shifting from conventional to regenerative and agroecological approaches. 

These analyses, alongside our Cost-Benefit Methodology, help users model transition economics in their own contexts – making visible the upfront investments, yield implications, market access needs, and policy changes required to make regenerative agriculture economically viable for farmers. 

This evidence base grounds regenerative ambition in the practical realities of farmer livelihoods, informing what finance mechanisms, policy reforms, and business commitments are  needed to enable transitions at scale. 

How We Work 

Regen10 operates as a multi-stakeholder partnership, with more than a dozen organizations representing different parts of the food system as current and founding partners. Our work is guided by our High-Level Advisory Group and Experts Network spanning food systems transformation, conservation, farming practice, and Indigenous knowledge systems. 

We function through a lean Secretariat that convenes partners, develops core tools, and supports implementation. But our power comes from the network – the collective expertise, legitimacy, and reach of actors working toward regenerative and agroecological outcomes across every region and sector. Since its inception in 2021, Regen10 has engaged with over 1,000 organizations, including 300 farmer-led organizations, 61 Indigenous Peoples’ groups, 270 civil society organizations, and 240 businesses. 

Our approach intentionally centers power with farmers and frontline communities. Tools are co-created, not imposed. Validation happens through application in real landscapes, not just technical review. And implementation is led by local orchestrators who understand context and hold legitimacy with communities, rather than being externally driven. 

We work in partnership with landscape initiatives, businesses, research institutions, and funders – but always with the principle that regenerative and agroecological transitions must be shaped by those whose livelihoods and lands are at stake. 

What Success Looks Like 

Two decades from now, Regen10’s success will be measured not by what we’ve built, but by what we’ve enabled others to do. 

We’ll know we’ve succeeded when: 

  • Farmers and landscape stewards shape the policies and finance mechanisms affecting them, rather than responding to externally imposed agendas 
  • Regenerative outcomes are clearly defined and consistently pursued across diverse actors, reducing fragmentation and greenwashing 
  • Transitions are grounded in economic viability and local context, with evidence-based understanding of costs, trade-offs, and enabling conditions 
  • The tools and guidance we’ve developed are widely used and adapted by others leading their own regenerative journeys 
  • Finance flows to regenerative and agroecological systems because the evidence base, alignment, and accountability structures exist to make it viable 

Ultimately, Regen10 exists to create the conditions for deep regeneration – food systems that restore ecosystems, strengthen communities, and deliver equitable livelihoods for those who feed the world. Not by prescribing how this happens everywhere, but by building the coherence, evidence, and local capacity that allows it to happen authentically in each place.