Who We Are

How We Work 

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 work is guided by our High-Level Advisory Group and Experts Network spanning food systems transformation, conservation, farming practice, and Indigenous knowledge systems. 

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 We Do 

We work to shift global food systems toward regenerative and equitable outcomes 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. 

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. 

Our Principles

Our Principles are rooted in the Committee on Food Security’s High-Level Panel of Experts’ Principles of Agroecology, inspired by other existing guidelines on regenerative approaches, and honed by Regen10’s partners.

With these Principles underpinning Regen10’s work, we are building an ambitious multistakeholder initiative that learns from the collective experience of all actors in global food systems to understand what it would take for 50% of the world’s agricultural production to transition to regenerative by 2040.

Regen10 commits to adopting the following 10 Principles to enable regenerative and agroecological approaches to create food systems that deliver positive outcomes for people, nature, and climate.

1. Farmer-Centricity: Ensure the experiences, knowledge, and realities of farmers, fishers, foragers, herders, and pastoralists are at the centre of regenerative initiatives and policy processes.
2. Resilience: Identify and support social, ecological, and economically adaptive systems in the face of a changing planet.
3. Landscape-Alignment: Apply a place-based, socio-ecologically adaptive, and context-specific approach to regenerative initiatives.
4. Equity, Fairness, and Rights: Make commitments to social justice, sustainable and safe livelihoods, rights-holders and stewards of the land, and access to affordable and nutritious food.
5. Diversity: Protect, support, and value diverse agricultural, ecological, and cultural realities while recognising the shared reality and reliance of all beings on our planet.
6. Healthy Climate: Generate positive outcomes in policy, finance, research, and farming processes to ensure food systems fully contribute to global climate mitigation and adaptation goals.
7. Collaboration and Partnership: Advance a shared and ambitious vision, knowledge and dialogue, and collective strategies among regenerative food systems advocates, experts, and practitioners worldwide.
8. Inclusivity and Transparency: Facilitate the engagement of diverse people and organisations in transparent deliberations, outcomes, and collective actions affecting regenerative food systems initiatives.
9. Innovation: Co-create technical, policy, and social innovation to enhance people and planet together.
10. Ongoing Learning: Build evidence-based and diverse knowledge through peer-to-peer learning that informs and innovates transitions to regenerative food systems for diverse stakeholders and finds shared solutions.