The Importance of Regenerative Agriculture to Reduce the Use of Agrotoxics. Advice from the Health Surveillance of Populations Exposed to Agrotoxics

Regenerative agriculture, with its holistic approach to ameliorate ecosystems, particularly their soil health, aims to obtain more sustainable and resilient ecosystems, increasing food production and mitigating climate change. This type of agriculture is based on the use of vegetal compost, which contains macro and micronutrients that together with selected microorganisms such as mycorrhizae can improve plant growth and ameliorate soil properties, decreasing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Thus, advances in waste management and microbes such as inoculation of mycorrhizas and bacteria are nowadays deeply investigated. Innovations have increased worldwide since most plant species, including grasses, are associated with microorganisms, especially with arbuscular mycorrhizas, being used in agriculture together decreasing the great quantities of waste distributed in the environment and transformed into soil amendments, such as compost or biochar. Despite the higher cost of active farm regeneration, which requires planting plantlets, or direct seedling, inoculation of microorganisms despite disturbance mitigation. The use of composted waste could decrease many costs as the recovery of litter from trees and grass is also increasingly used; however, these must be originated from free-pesticide sites. Rhizosphere engineering is also directed for better plant growth or for soil carbon sequestration. Composting organic waste is increasingly adopted due to continued interest in solving environmental issues.