Digging Deeper: Soil Health as the Game Changer for Poverty Reduction
Building on the Millenium Development Goals – many of which saw considerable success, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a series of universally agreed-upon goals for the welfare of people and the planet.
Of these, SDG 1- No Poverty is a critical goal since it is intricately tied to other goals– No Hunger, Good Health and Wellbeing, Quality Education, Climate Action, Life on Land among others. However, despite decades of progress, poverty continues to be unacceptably high.
A new paper from IFDC, written by Dr. Caroline Kundu Agamala, Senior Soil Scientist, and Vinay Menon, Business Development Atlas Corps Fellow, seeks to elaborate on this theory of change and build the case for improving soil health.