18 January

Elaine Ingham, soil scientist. The word soil comes from the Latin word humus, which is also the root of ‘human’. Our agriculture turns soil into lifeless dirt. Some facts about soil: - one handful of good soil contains more living things than all of the humans who have ever lived - soil holds over 80% of all carbon - increasing carbon in the soil by only 1.6% by restoring degraded farmland would remove the climate change problem, and - fixing the soil fixes water and fixes food production.