Climate Sense

Simultaneously, our global population has surged past 8 billion, on a trajectory to reach 10 billion. The demand for more food and greater agricultural productivity has intensified.

Modern industrialized agriculture has left a legacy of degraded soil health and a climate crisis. Decades of exploitation have created unhealthy soils ravaged by synthetic fertilizers, inundated with pesticides, and subjected to relentless erosion due to tillage, lack of cover cropping and weather. The fertility of our soil has been degraded across the planet.

Unhealthy soil creates two problems:

1. Billions of metric tons of soil erode, leaving millions of acres unprotected with degraded soils and

2. Billions of metric tons of carbon are lost to the atmosphere.

Yet, soil remains the second greatest carbon sink on earth. Healthy soils play a major role in increasing carbon sequestration, reducing atmospheric carbon and of course in producing healthy, nutritious food for people around the world.