Save Soil Now for Us All

The soil harbors an abundance of life in many forms and sizes, from earthworms to microscopic organisms ten times smaller than a needle pin which are referred to as the 'soil food web'. Their presence helps to build organic matter, trace reduce crop disease, improve soil structure and water holding capacity.

Soil is also the biggest carbon sink. The world’s soils store more carbon than the planet’s biomass and atmosphere combined. When land is degraded, soil carbon can be released into the atmosphere, along with nitrous oxide, making soil degradation one of the biggest contributors to climate change.

Over the last 150 years, many of the world’s prime agricultural soils have lost between 30% and 75% of their carbon, adding billions of tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere. Losses of soil carbon significantly reduce the productive potential of the land and the profitability of farming. Soil degradation has intensified in recent decades, with around 30% of the world’s cropland abandoned in the last 40 years due to soil decline. With the global population predicted to peak close to 10 billion by 2050, the need for soil restoration has never been more pressing.

The use of chemical fertilizer/drugs/antibiotics have severely compromised soil microbial communities resulting in nutrient and mineral depleting in vegetable and meat. The level of every nutrient in almost every kind of food has fallen between 10 and 100% over the last 70 years.

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