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V\u00e4lkomna till en sp\u00e4nnande resa mot en regenerativ framtid! I detta blogginl\u00e4gg utforskar vi m\u00f6jligheten att skapa kolinlagrande matregioner, d\u00e4r regenerativt jordbruk kan vara svaret p\u00e5 en rad akuta h\u00e5llbarhetsutmaningar. Vi diskuterar \u00e4ven hur vi genom medvetna val i v\u00e5r kost kan forma landskapet och fr\u00e4mja positiva avtryck genom maten vi \u00e4ter. L\u00e4r dig hur verktygen Holistic management och Keyline Design kan v\u00e4gleda oss. Tillsammans kan vi skapa en b\u00e4ttre v\u00e4rld f\u00f6r alla varelser som bor p\u00e5 planeten – b\u00e5da nuvarande och framtida generationer!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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CARBON POSITIVE FOOD REGIONS – and how we can co-create them<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Could “V\u00e4stra G\u00f6talandsregionen” (the administrative region of West Sweden) become the first to target regional net carbon sequestration in soil by supporting regenerative agriculture? Or Maybe Orust Municipality, where I do a case study in my thesis?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regenerative agriculture could be a solution to many, if not most, of our current urgent sustainability challenges. It could regenerative our soils and ecosystems while also producing healthy food, improve biodiversity, water infiltration rates, bringing people together and creating new jobs. What if we could facilitate regenerative land use on a regional scale and thus regenerating ecosystems, communities and local economies in the region – improving quality of life for all beings? Human, non-human, present and future generations.<\/p>\n

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POSITIVE FOODPRINTS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We design and plan our cities and regional infrastructure like roads, housing areas, water pipes etc – may we through a collaborative food system design approach also design and plan our landscapes to facilitate regenerative land use and food production? What role does physical planners have and how can we encourage bottom up initiatives led by farmers, land owners and consumers? These are some questions I explore in my Master thesis at Chalmers School of Architecture. The challenge is not not create more damage than good with tools of top down planning by finding a good balance of bottom up and top down initiatives.<\/p>\n

The daily choices of what people eat, could itself be seen as an act of “food system design” – impacting our common landscapes for the better or for worse. By voting with our forks on regenerative land use we can create “Positive Foodprints”!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What if we could design landscapes by the very act of eating? This is what I call “Positive Foodprints”! Designing our food system can be done by making more conscious acts of eating and having a closer relation to the land and the farmer who manages it – step by step shifting the outcome of that management to land regeneration! In fact the whole design process is based on a collaborative \u201cfood system design\u201d carried out by the daily actions of what people eat and how it shapes the landscapes around them.<\/p>\n

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DESIGNING FOOD SYSTEMS<\/h3>\n

Om min masteravhandling: Koldioxidpositiva matregioner<\/h4>\n

About my Master Thesis: Carbon positive food regions “Carbon positive food regions”, as my thesis is called, is an attempt to create a framework, method and give an example of a regenerative regional strategy – exploring opportunities of planning for regenerative agriculture with net negative emissions on regional scale – land use that also produces local food, regenerates land, ecosystems, local communities & local economies. The project is inspired by the movement of regenerative agriculture and the many stories of such farmers. In Sweden. The design research will be situated in the context of a 450 hectare farm called Bj\u00e4llans\u00e5s in Uddevalla – exploring its potential as a model of regenerative land use that can be scaled up regionally to build topsoil and heal ecosystems.<\/p>\n

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Follow my process<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Through a series of video-blogs I will share my insights and thoughts throughout the project. The first video I recorded in Swedish is published below:<\/p>\n

Episode 1 = Mussel farming <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Did you know that 1 ton of mussels can filter 100kg of nitrogen and 10kg of phosphorus?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first episode in a new video series where I tell about everything from aquaculture that revitalizes ecosystems in the water to regenerative agriculture that builds up food soil and revitalizes ecosystems on land. Firstly I visit a mussel farm that can filter and absorb excess nutrient in the ocean and actively reverse negative trends of eutrophication – regenerating the water ecosystems as they grow and are harvested. The video series is also an exploration of whether we can create a regenerative carbon-sequestering food system in a region or municipality, which I investigate in my master thesis in Architecture and Planning at Chalmers Technical University.<\/p>\n