This publication is timely given the emerging debate around the relationship between agroecology and regenerative agriculture. Can a focus on maintaining soil health, which is the foundation of regenerative approaches, achieve the whole food system transformation that agroecological approaches consider necessary to address the interrelated global challenges of ending hunger; halting and reversing biodiversity loss and degradation of land and water resources; while reducing GHG emissions and adapting to effects of climate change?

What can be learned from this publication is that soil-focused practices and approaches can contribute to addressing all the agroecological principles. However, it requires explicit efforts to combine practices, not all of which will be soil-focused, for all the principles to be addressed sufficiently to effect food system transformation needed to overcome the global challenges.