Groundbreaking technology using soil spectral analysis enables ecosystem health evaluation on a massive scale, paving the way for better targeting of land restoration and more sustainable agriculture.

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.

Dr Leigh Ann Winowiecki, soil systems scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF, and Dr Rattan Lal, a distinguished professor of soil science at Ohio State University and World Food Prize Laureate, discuss why soil needs to be front and centre of global policies.

On 17 September 2021, Rabobank, the Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) organised an online event on soil health as a foundation to sustainable food systems.

Perhaps the greatest hope for a more sustainable future lies underfoot: our planet’s soil.

By Dr Rattan Lal

Action Track 3 of the UN Food Systems Summit has built coalitions that can deliver systemic impact in the near future

By João Campari, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Rattan Lal, Leigh Ann Winowiecki, Izabella Koziell

Read the article from Forbes on what soil can do for us and the planet.

Waste management and soil degradation are two of India’s most pressing environmental concerns. The Indian state of Maharashtra, together with two GIZ projects, tackles both through one market mechanism – ‘city compost’. Urban municipal waste is composted and used as organic fertiliser in agriculture. This relieves the cities’ waste management and enhances rural soils and in turn productivity.