Soils

Gully and ravine erosion, Spain

Photo: Michiel Damen

Gully erosion, Basilicata, Italy

Photo: Michiel Damen

Landslide & gully erosion caused by road construction, Phewa Tal, Nepal

Photo: Michiel Damen

 

Sheet erosion. Italy

Photo: Michiel Damen

 

This animated film tells the reality of soil resources around the world, covering the issues of degradation, urbanization, land grabbing and overexploitation; the film offers options to make the way we manage our soils more sustainable.

For more information and media visit globalsoilweek.org

 

 

The Save Our Soils campaign was initiated by Nature & More, as a partner in FAO's Global Soil Partnership. Many other NGO's and companies have joined the campaign. The Save Our Soils campaign ran from December 2012 until December of 2015, the International Year of Soils. After that the campaign will continue at a slower pace. Vandana Shiva is the international patron of the Save Our Soils campaign.

The campaign aims to raise consumer awareness about the importance of soil for our health, food security and climate. It wants to make people aware of the problem of degraded soils, and point towards soilutions. Last but not least, the campaign aims to activate consumers to get creative and become soildiers for a better future. (Text: Nature & More).

SEKEM Agriculture in the desert

SEKEM Agriculture functions as holding for the agricultural activities and companies of SEKEM. From reclaiming desert land through SEKEM For Land Reclamation,   pest control through Predators, graving plants through El-Mizan to cattle management and composting through Libra, the whole agriculture cycle is covered.

Biodynamic agriculture is a method of Organic farming that applies a holistic understanding of life processes. As one of the  first sustainable agriculture movements, it treats soil fertility, plant growth, and livestock care as ecologically interrelated tasks emphasizing spiritual and cosmic perspectives (Text: Sekem).

Let's Talk About Soils  - Triodos Bank Investment management

Healthy soil is degrading. As impact investors, we have the opportunity to seek solutions to restore and cultivate healthy soil. PYMWYMIC (Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community) and Triodos Investment Management released a guide on how impact investing can save our soil from further degradation. (Text: Triodos Bank).