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Be the Solution to Soil Pollution - Polluting our soils is polluting our future

Soil pollution affects food security by reducing crop yields and quality. Safe, nutritious and good quality food can only be produced if our soils are healthy. Without healthy soils, we won't be able to produce enough food to achieve


Facts & Figures

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
  • Soil holds three times as much carbon as the atmosphere and can help us meet the challenges of a changing climate
  • 815 million people are food insecure and 2 billion people are nutritionally insecure, but we can mitigate this through soil.
  • 95% of our food comes from soil
  • 33% of our global soils are already degraded

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