Why Agriculture is the Core of our Survival
Advocating for healthy soil is more than ensuring our food is nutrient rich - it is about managing the natural carbon cycle and drawing down on the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that we have emitted largely since the industrial revolution.
Soil has 3x the capacity to store carbon than the atmosphere. Regenerative farming practices that transition industrial practices to no-till, cover crops and high stock intensity grazing are transforming the health of the soil, while also demonstrating resilience through flood and drought events.
So much of the sustainability discussion is focussed on emissions - we need to think more broadly and more holistically about food security, soil, land use and the role of agriculture in sustaining the human population but also in sustaining the future of our planet.
Check out this film: Kiss The Ground
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