For generations, the Basotho people have lived in partnership with their horses, navigating terrain too steep for roads and too wild for machines. Here, where the mountains determine the pace of life, horse and rider move as one carrying food, people, stories, and traditions between remote communities.

It is a relationship built on trust, not ownership.

Ba Jara Thaba—"They Carry the Mountain"—captures this enduring bond through the eyes of filmmaker Ramon Mellett, whose two-year journey into the heart of Semongkong reveals a world that remains remarkably untouched by modernity. Rather than documenting a sporting spectacle, the film lingers in the quieter moments: the stillness before the race, the soft exchange between rider and horse, the silence that follows the thunder of hooves across the highlands.

On the occasion of the World Soil Day 2024, the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe is celebrating healthy soils that support biodiversity, food systems and human-nature interactions in UNESCO designated sites. Through the EU-funded SOILSCAPE project, UNESCO, together with 19 partners, is helping local communities to connect with their soil by harnessing the power of art, creativity, culture and science.

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betterSoil for a better world is an organisation dedicated to scaling soil health globally. Chairperson and founder, Azadeh Farajpour, shares critical insight into why this mission is so important. This video was shared as part of the betterSoil intervention at the May 2023 ChangeNOW conference in Paris, France.

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Watch the video from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Science and Innovation Forum 2022 - Interview with Scientists: Rattan Lal.

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"Soils are the literal foundation of life on this planet -- the reason that we eat and the climate solution just waiting to be unlocked," - Jane Zelikova

Renowned soil scientist, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at the Ohio State University, and World Food Prize Awardee 2020, Dr. Rattan Lal, discusses the Save Soil movement with Sadhguru.