Examples of specific circular practices are:
- Recycling and designing out waste through composting farm wastes such as Stover and animal waste to manure, and use of crop residue for animal feed,
- Optimal use of resources at the farm level and by businesses such reducing post-harvest losses by producing quality marketable products, diversifying markets for full utilization of farm produce, use of high quality
- inputs to reduce the quantities needed, businesses pooling transportation of produce to reduce costs, renting or sharing of farm equipment;
- Increasing diversity through mixed cropping and crop rotation to take advantage of seasonal changes, agroforestry and mixed cropping systems for multiple sources of foods for the households;
- Use of renewable energy such as biogas or solar systems and wood fuel from agroforestry trees.
Regenerative practices are for example:
- Farmers setting soil and water conservation structures to stop erosion and pollution of water bodies by siltation;
- Farmers reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and increasing the use organic fertilizer from farm compost, animal manure, vermicomposting, and commercial organic fertilizers;
- Farmers using commercially available beneficial microorganisms such Mycorrhizae and Trichoderma soil fungi products that improve plant growth;
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM) measures where farmers reduce the use of chemical pesticides and substitute or complement these with bio-pesticides, mechanical and cultural methods of pest control to encourage beneficial insects such as bees and butterflies to thrive;
- Agroforestry systems to increase tree to increase tree cover and improve ecosystems functions that trees provide
