Coming soon: A tool to unlock the benefits of regenerative agriculture

Regenerative agriculture offers transformative benefits: healthier soils that capture more carbon, cleaner water systems, thriving biodiversity, and farming operations that are more resilient to climate extremes. These practices don't just protect the environment — they deliver better yields, reduce input costs, and create stronger, more sustainable businesses.

But here's the challenge: with so many different organizations offering their own version of "regenerative agriculture," farmers and companies are left navigating a maze of competing definitions and standards. How do you know which practices truly deliver regenerative outcomes?

Preferred by Nature is testing a new Regenerative Agriculture Assessment Tool — a clear, science-based system that will measure genuine regenerative progress, cutting through industry confusion to focus on what works in the real world.

How this tool will benefit your organisation

A universal framework built for real-world results

Our assessment tool is grounded in seven universal principles that work across diverse agricultural systems — from annual rotation crops to century-old coffee plantations:

1. Soil Management: Advanced soil analysis, strategic crop rotation, cover crops, and reduced tillage to a minimum to maintain soil carbon levels
2. Nutrient Management: Organic fertilizer integration, balanced NPK, and precision application
3. Weeds and Diseases: Integrated sustainable management strategies
4. Plant Protection: Biological control methods and reduced chemical dependency
5. Biodiversity Restoration: Natural habitat enhancement and pollinator conservation
6. Water Management: Efficient irrigation systems, watershed protection, and adapting with innovative water management practices
7. Energy Saving: Reduced direct and indirect energy use and renewable energy sources when and where possible

Each principle will include specific, measurable criteria that allow progress to be scored, tracked, and independently verified. Whether you're managing oil palm, cocoa, rice paddies, or wheat fields, and whether you’re in Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, or elsewhere, the same robust framework will deliver consistent, comparable results.

Backed by three decades of real-world experience

With 30 years of experience working across both major certification standards and innovative smaller systems, Preferred by Nature brings a unique systems-level perspective to regenerative agriculture. We've seen the landscape evolve, understand where different approaches diverge, and know how to create bridges that work for everyone in the value chain.

This deep expertise is reinforced by substantial field experience in regenerative agriculture: we've implemented over €11 million in projects across Europe and  Southeast Asia, spanning multiple crops, including cocoa, grapes, oil palm, rice, and wheat. Through our certification assurance, sustainability advisory services, and donor-funded initiatives, we've gained practical insights into what works on the ground and what doesn't.

Stay connected and learn more about our development progress

We're currently pressure testing our Regenerative Agriculture Assessment Tool across multiple scenarios and a broad range of crops around the world to ensure it delivers reliable results in diverse real-world conditions.

Once available, Preferred by Nature-certified farms will be able to enhance their existing crop certifications with our regenerative agriculture validation module. This tool is designed to be used as an additional module that can be combined with existing agricultural certification schemes, giving certified farms a powerful market differentiator while offering buyers and partners the credible verification they need.