It’s Soilicious!

How to prepare healthy meals from healthy soils.

It’s Soilicious! Cookbook cover.

“You are what you eat” is a saying that comes with a true essence: How and what you eat has great impact on your daily life. Why not try and make your diet as good as possible? There are so many reasons to care about food: it nourishes body and soul, has the power to connect and inspire us and is often at the very heart of culture and social life.

Yet long before preparing our meals, the foundation for healthy food can be found in the ground,
to be exact in our soils, since they provide the basis for over 95 per cent of our food. This makes soils a vital part of our food system. However, they are under threat: On a global scale, more and more soils face degradation. And while the amount of land available for agriculture is shrinking, the number of people who need to be fed and well-nourished is growing.

To protect our soils and ensure food security we need innovative tools. This is where the Global Programme “Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security” (ProSoil) implemented by
the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH steps in.

Commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-funded by the European Union (EU), ProSoil supports local, national and international partners in imple- menting and exchanging knowledge on agroecological soil protection and rehabilitation measures tobuild resilience against multiple crises and ensure food security. This applies in particular to the EU-cofunded part of ProSoil “Enhancing soils and agroecology for resilient agricultural and food systems in Sub-Saharan Arica” (ProSilience). This cookbook is our way of sharing this knowledge with you. We invite you to flip through the pages and try some of our delicious recipes from all around
the world.