Op-Ed | Soil health, global goals, and coordinating efforts: Reflections on five years of the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health

Five years ago, the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) was launched at the UN Food Systems Summit to advocate for healthy soil as central to food system transformation.

At that time, healthy soil was not formally recognized as a climate solution, despite it being the largest terrestrial carbon sink and having a central role in upholding food and nutrition security, combating land degradation and drought, hosting biodiverse ecosystems, and filtering and storing water, among a myriad of other co-benefits. 

But momentum was growing.

Read the full op-ed by CA4SH co-Lead Dr Leigh Winowiecki