A major global fund supporting climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives is partnering with social enterprise Lida Group to establish pioneering regenerative agriculture demonstration sites utilising dual-purpose landforms and modular steel-framed greenhouse structures.

Located across degraded semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia, the trials incorporate undulating earthen swales, berms and integrated ponds constructed to precisely graded contours harnessing rainfall runoff agriculturally while assisting landscape regeneration over multiple seasons.

Upon these landforms, Lida’s prefabricated hoop-houses slot together using standardised steel beams and wall/roof panels rapidly deployed on-site without machinery, accommodating various modular configurations tailored to rehabilitating micro-ecosystems and cultivating high-value speciality crops.

Interspersed vegetation belts naturally stabilise the banks, while planted swales improve organic content and water retention capacity of depleted soils through plant litter and root biomass. Ponded zones promote aquifer recharge and fodder production during dry periods.

Crops under protective cover thrive with supplementary irrigation from landform-captured runoff. Biannual rotations further enhance ecological functions and yields of regeneratively farmed staples or high-value herbs between seasons of soil-building cover-crops.

Computer monitoring and tissue sampling tracks improvements over baseline indicators of degraded soils across pilot sites. Cost-benefit analysis assesses impact on household nutrition, incomes and natural capital restoration through replicated scaled-up models.

Findings aim establishing benchmarks for climate-resilient agricultural regeneration frameworks empowering millions reliant on marginalised drylands to rebuild degraded homesteads through low-input land management paired with protected cropping expanding opportunities from limited lands.

Early data signals landscapes are rehydrating, carbon sequestration is occurring, and restored soils yield multiples beyond barren expanses depressing communities for generations. Modular greenhouses suitably scale strategies across plot sizes.

Successful pilot outcomes may stimulate preferential funding and training programmes empowering smallholders adoption through cooperation and a focus on natural capital rehabilitation aligning agricultural and environmental benefits into integrated systems functioning as whole.

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