SOS - Save Our Soils

Food security is threatened by degradation of soils. The production of all our food depends on it! In 2050, more than 9 billion people will inhabit this planet and we will need healthy soils to feed them. Research shows that approximately 750 million hectares of soil are lightly degraded. Organic agriculture can help to restore these soils completely and make them more productive. In the autumn of 2012, Nature & More will fire off a new campaign: Save Our Soils. Because a healthy soil = healthy food.

The importance of soil

In november 2011, the FAO published a ground breaking report about the state of humanity's main resources: soil and fresh water. The report makes perfectly clear why saving our soils is of utmost importance:

• Feeding the world: we need to maintain soil fertility sustainably to feed the world's population.
  
• Saving the climate: the soil is the largest carbon stock on the planet that we can actually manage. See here.
  
• Keeping the planet wet: the condition of our soils determines erosion, wash-out, drought resistance, pollution, evaporation, storage capacity - everything about fresh water.