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SOIL biodiversity

“Soils are a key reservoir of global biodiversity, which ranges from micro-organisms to flora and fauna. This biodiversity has a fundamental role in supporting soil functions and therefore ecosystem goods and services associated with soils. Therefore it is necessary to maintain soil biodiversity to safeguard these functions.”

Climate mitigation

Soils as Carbon Sink: Climate Protection from Below

Soils can store gigantic amounts of carbon. Scientists want to use this to get CO₂ emissions back out of the atmosphere.

SPIEGEL Wissenschaft. 09.02.2021 (Article in German)

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Food system reform

“Biodiversity, crucial to human and planetary health, is declining faster than at any time in human history. Agriculture is driving this trend, making food system reform an urgent priority.”