The first look at the website that contains information about the campaign Save Our Soils (SOS) is very impactful. That is a board counting how many m2 of fertile soil industrial farming has destroyed by the time we click in a web link that goes to the page I Love Organic. To clarify, the intention of this blog is not being against industrial agriculture, but considering the increase of population and our concerns about natural resources, it is necessary to provide information about alternatives of production.
The SOS initiative in partnership with IFOAM - Organics International, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Earth Charter, Nature & More, and other partners is a campaign that works in order to reduce the lost of soils. As it says in their website, they seek to aware the public about soil catastrophe and encourage engagement for solutions. One of the most given advice in this campaign is to start eating organic products or to people to initiate their own garden. Also, they encourage people to start composting from their own food, so they can keep the cycle of nutrients.
Working with farmers, consumers and students, their intention is to “reinforce academic, informal and consumer education, increasing awareness and education highlighting the relationships between sustainable soil management, food security, soil carbon sequestration and climate change”. Their idea of involving all the segments of society is by educating soil science majors about the problems, volunteer work with young people and providing research and data about soil conditions in agricultural areas.
References:
No comments:
Post a Comment