Soil Health
A healthy food system begins with healthy soil. However, over the course of the last century, soil health has suffered greatly. Loss of topsoil, water contamination, greenhouse gas emissions, and lack of soil biodiversity all jeopardize the soil’s ability to sustain plants, animals, and humans. This week’s Deep Dive explores the factors that threaten soil as well as the companies, technologies, people, and organizations working to revitalize it.
Additional Resources
- The factory of life: Why soil biodiversity is so important (European Commission)
- Topsoil Erosion (Stanford University)
- 'Slow, insidious' soil erosion threatens human health and welfare as well as the environment (Cornell University)
- CHART OF THE DAY: Why The World Has No Choice But To Buy More And More fertiliser (Business Insider)
- Globally arable land per capita is shrinking (Bayer Ag)
- Nitrate and Nitrite in Drinking-water (World Health Organization)
- Nutrients from atmospheric and urban sources, fertilization, andlivestock wastes can contribute to excessive algal growth in streams (U.S. Geological Survey)
- Fertilizers Market to Reach 151.8 Billion USD by 2020 - (IndustryARC)
- What is Agricultural Biodiversity? (Convention on Biological Diversity)
- Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality (PNAS)
- The Water-Soil Health Connection (University of Nebraska)
- Market Insights (Better Food Insights)
- Advancing Regenerative Agriculture (3BL Media)
- Why Regenerative Agriculture? (Regeneration International)
- Regenerative Agriculture Industry Map (Re-source)
- Kernza more than just a new food trend (The Land Institute)