Inside the Regenerating Together Programme: The Food Industry’s New Framework for Regenerative Agriculture

What the Regenerating Together Programme Is

The initiative is built around a global framework for regenerative agriculture that provides:

• A shared definition of regenerative agriculture
• A set of environmental outcomes used to evaluate progress
• Guidance to help companies make credible and verifiable sustainability claims

The framework treats regenerative agriculture as an outcome‑based farming approach, meaning progress is measured through quantifiable indicators rather than prescribing a single set of farming practices.

This approach allows farms in different regions or production systems to adopt locally appropriate methods while still reporting progress against comparable environmental outcomes.

The Four Core Impact Areas

The programme aligns companies and farmers around four global environmental impact areas:

• Soil health: improving soil structure, fertility, and carbon storage
• Water stewardship: improving water retention, quality, and watershed resilience
• Climate resilience: reducing emissions and increasing farms’ ability to adapt to climate change
• Biodiversity: supporting ecosystem health above and below ground

Each impact area is linked to shared indicators and outcome metrics, enabling companies to track environmental improvements across their supply chains and compare progress across regions and suppliers.

How the Four‑Step Framework Supports the Transition

The programme uses a four‑step framework designed to help companies transition agricultural supply chains toward regenerative practices.

Available documentation confirms that the framework:

• Guides companies through a structured transition process
• Links farming practices to measurable environmental outcomes
• Allows outcomes to be assessed using common indicators across the four impact areas

However, publicly available sources do not fully detail the individual names or mechanics of each step, so the exact operational sequence cannot be fully described from the available evidence.

What is clear is that the framework emphasizes:

• Outcome‑based measurement
• Context‑specific adaptation at the farm and regional level
• Consistent monitoring, reporting, and verification of environmental results.

What Happened During the Global Pilot Phase

Before launching the programme more broadly, SAI Platform conducted a large pilot phase to test the framework in real supply chains.

Key results included:

• More than 35 pilot initiatives conducted globally
• Trials across 23 different agricultural production systems
• Implementation in 25 countries covering crops, dairy, and beef farming

Major companies and supply‑chain partners—including Nestlé, Wildfarmed, Louis Dreyfus Company, and McCain—participated in testing the framework.

According to SAI Platform, these pilots validated that a common outcome‑based framework can work across diverse agricultural systems while allowing for local adaptation.

When the Global Launch Is Planned

Momentum for the programme accelerated in 2026, when 40 food and agriculture companies signed a joint declaration supporting the initiative’s development and scale‑up.

The public launch of the Regenerating Together Programme is scheduled to coincide with SAI Platform’s Annual Event in Saskatoon, Canada, from 22–24 June 2026.

This launch marks the transition from pilot testing to broader industry implementation.

Why a Shared Industry Framework Matters

Regenerative agriculture has gained global attention, but one of the biggest challenges has been inconsistent definitions and metrics across companies and initiatives.

Without a shared framework:

• Companies define regenerative agriculture differently
• Sustainability claims are difficult to verify
• Progress across supply chains cannot easily be compared

The Regenerating Together Programme aims to address this gap by creating industry‑wide alignment on definitions, indicators, and reporting methods.

This alignment is important because the food system faces interconnected risks, including:

• climate change
• biodiversity loss
• soil degradation
• water stress
• pressure on farmer livelihoods

SAI Platform and its partners argue that tackling these challenges requires coordinated action across entire supply chains rather than isolated company initiatives.

The Bigger Goal: Securing Future Food Systems

Ultimately, the programme is designed to help companies protect long‑term agricultural productivity while reducing environmental impact. By using shared outcome metrics and scalable frameworks, the industry hopes to accelerate adoption of regenerative practices even in markets where consumer demand for regenerative products is still emerging.

If widely adopted, the framework could provide a common backbone for regenerative agriculture across global food supply chains—bringing companies, farmers, and suppliers into alignment around measurable environmental outcomes.