Soil biodiversity is gaining prominence as a vital tool in improving food security and mitigating climate change impacts. But are we paying attention?
This story was produced with support from the Earth Journalism Network’s Biodiversity Grant.
This article was published in Nature inFoucs on 07 April, 2022. You can read the complete article here –> Nature inFocus
On a blazing hot summer morning in Denkanikottai, Tamil Nadu, the Bhoomi Farmers team gathered in their conference room. A group of agricultural science graduates with varying backgrounds like entomology, microbiology and agronomy faced a whiteboard as Shankar Venkataraman, Founder of Bhoomi and passionate agriculturist, began the day’s discussion. On the board, he wrote—’It all starts with how you manage soil.’
Over the next hour, Venkataraman spoke about the importance of soil health and how we have become disconnected from this vital resource. But the main protagonists of his narrative were the squiggly lines and circles he drew to depict the life within the soil, a.k.a. soil biodiversity.
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