Overview
Governance refers to the formal and informal institutions, rules, and decision-making processes that shape land access, resource rights, participation, representation, and accountability within agrifood systems.
In a regenerative frame, inclusive participation, equitable representation, secure tenure, and fair distribution of rights, responsibilities, and benefits are outcomes in their own right, not just enabling conditions. Good governance determines whether ecological restoration, food security, and resource management are guided by collective responsibility and long-term stewardship rather than short-term extraction.
Governance shape how economic incentives, input use, finance, and infrastructure deployment support or undermine regeneration at farm and landscape scales. It influences whether soil health, biodiversity, and water systems are sustained or degraded, and whether the benefits of regenerative transitions are equitably shared.
Farm level
