将健康与营养与再生农业相连接

Connecting Health and Nutrition to Regenerative Agriculture Table of contents Executive Summary..................................................................................................21.Introduction:.....................................................................................................61.1 Purpose and format of the report:.....................................................................61.2 About the Climate and Health Coalition............................................................72.Framing: why focus on health within the regenerative agriculture narrative?..........93.The current picture: What is known about the connections between human health,nutrition, and regenerative agriculture?...................................................................113.1 Nutrient Density............................................................................................113.2 Benefits of eating a diverse range of minimally processed foods.......................133.3 Wider connections between regenerative agriculture and human health...........143.4 Current ways to measure and claim nutrient density.......................................154.The current picture: How are we communicating the health benefits of regenerativeagriculture?...........................................................................................................174.1 Claims and health benefits:...........................................................................184.2 Inferred benefits:..........................................................................................18 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to provide asummary ofthecurrentunderstandingaroundthethe links between regenerative agriculturepractices, health and nutritionasa routeto activating demand and preference forproducts sourced usingregenerativeagriculturepracticeswith consumers and citizensin the UK.This in turn has the Creating this greater shared understanding and narrative has the potential to: •Accelerate the demand for regeneratively grown produce and products amongcitizens and consumers.•Drive brand preference to support food partners across the value chain to see a The report is based on desk research, interviews with a range of experts and insightsgathered in anin-personworkshop inthe UK inNovember 2025.It formsaworkstreamwithin the Climate & Health Coalition, a pre-competitive multi-stakeholdercollaborationfacilitated by Forum for the Future,with an overarching goal to mobilise Summary of current understanding: The connectionsbetween health, nutrition and regenerative agricultureare multiple The question of whether the nutrientdensity(theratio of nutrients to calories)of foodgrown in a regenerative agriculture system ishigherthan that from an industrialagriculturalsystem isincreasinglyof interest tofood system actorsand wider established5 core principles of regenerative agriculture for the benefit of this report1)oragroecological systems2,are well suited to producemore nutrient dense crops, but inpractice, understandingand evidence aroundwhich factors influencenutritionaldensityis initsinfancy,withmore standardized research trials needed.The most While much is still unknown aboutthehumangut and soil microbiomes,it isreasonablywell established thathumanhealth benefits from accessing a wide array ofnutrients from different foods,and soil healthbenefits from a variety of plantspeciessupportingadiversemixof microorganisms.A diet rich in avarietyof minimallyprocessed plants,embracingthemixof crops grown in regenerativefarmingsystems, Thinking more broadly,landscapes farmed regeneratively have huge potential forimprovinghumanhealth through reducing flooding, improving water quality, rural air Currentnutrition frameworksincludingthe UK traffic-light label,Nutri-Score in severalEuropean countries and retailer-led schemes such as Guiding Stars in the USAfocus onmacro nutrients and lack anyinformation on micronutrients (where most Western diets are lacking).Along with this gap inmechanismsto communicate a wider nutritionalprofile, thereis also a gap in the ability to measurethis range of nutrients at a farm levelat scaleand transfer that information through the value chain.Lots of exciting workisunderway exploring easier ways to measure and report on a more diverse range of Communication Current communication with consumers around regenerative agriculture focuses onthe benefits to nature and climate. While these are critical outcomes (and the drivingforce behind the widespread transition to regenerative agriculture),for consumers, Tobetteractivate consumers and citizens around regenerative agriculturethere is anopportunity for the food sector to considercredible messageswhichrefertotheconnections between health and regenerative agriculture.Andexplorehowthesecan Any emerging narrative needs toacknowledgesome clear risks and challenges.Mostcritically,any narrativemustremainscientificallycredibletomai