RACC Virtual Seminar Recording: “Agriculture Economies of the Appalachian Mid Atlantic and Strategies to Incentivize Regenerative Practices on Our Landscape”

Fall 2020 “Conservation Today” Speaker series
“Agriculture Economies of the Appalachian Mid Atlantic and Strategies to Incentivize Regenerative Practices on Our Landscape”
Presented by Tom Stanely, Virginia Cooperative Extension on Wednesday December 9, 2020

Tom’s view of how food system economics, cultural history and the natural resource base intersect to influence current land use in our region and opportunities for the region to have a role in mitigating carbon emissions.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JQiwIxIVJ6E
– Here is the link to the video from Beef Lamb NZ that Tom tried to play near the end. And he also recommends ..”the ‘learning module’ of which this video is a part is entitled ‘Climate Change’ and is found at:  https://beeflambnz.com/knowledge-hub“
– Ohter recommendations from Tom:
–“For reading I would highly recommend for RACC supporters is “The Shepherd’s Life: Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape” by James Rebanks.  Its his memoir of growing up on the family sheep operation in the Lake District with no other life in mind, being confronted with economic realities upon coming-of-age, and how he managed to get back to the farm.  He has a sequel I have not read:  “Pastoral: An Inheritance”
— James Rebanks OpEd “An English Sheep Farmer’s View of Rural America“
— Recent Economics lectures from the Reith Lecture Series can be found here:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 The four lectures are:  “From Moral to Market Sentiments”, “From Credit Crisis to Resilience”, “From Covid Crisis to Renaissance”, “From Climate Crisis to Real Prosperity”