Organics is key to mitigating climate change

With every year that passes, the vision of Soil & Health of an organic New Zealand becomes more relevant, more imperative and, in fact, more mainstream. Our maxim, ‘Oranga nuku – oranga kai – oranga tāngata: healthy soil – healthy food – healthy people’ extends into the sphere of climate change, as healthy, living soil is potentially the most important carbon sink our planet has.

URGENT NEED TO PROTECT AND REGENERATE SOILS

According to soil scientists, at current rates of soil destruction (i.e. decarbonisation, erosion, desertification, chemical pollution), within 50 years humanity will not only suffer further serious damage to public health due to a qualitatively degraded food supply, but we will no longer have enough