Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement

20. The Secret Revolution in Agriculture is Nitrogen, with Kelly Price

October 20, 2022 Wayne Visser
Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement
20. The Secret Revolution in Agriculture is Nitrogen, with Kelly Price
Show Notes

My guest this week is Kelly Price, who is Co-Founder and CEO of Agreed Earth. Kelly talks about how:

  • Our current economic model looks a lot like cancer – and why systems thinking is a way to change our metabolism as a species
  • Food security is a challenge of distribution rather than production – and how regenerative agriculture can “feed the world”
  • We need to change the farmer’s business model – and get them out of the “weapons of agricultural war” business
  • Chemical fertilisers – with the energy it takes to produce them and the nitrogen and phosphorous run off – are disasters for nature and climate change
  • Regenerative agriculture can reduce farmers’ dependence on synthetic nitrogen input, saving them money, lowering their risk, and helping them get to net zero carbon

Key links
Kelly Price (LinkedIn)
Agreed Earth (website)
Farm (and Other F Words), by Sarah K Mock (book)
Chasing the Red Queen, by Andy Dyer (book)
Farm to Fork, by Joe Stanley (book)
Thriving (book)
Connected (poem)
Wayne Visser (website)
Wayne Visser (LinkedIn)