{"id":246414,"date":"2023-10-23T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=246414"},"modified":"2023-10-20T05:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:11:55","slug":"soil-not-oil-transforming-the-industrial-fossil-fuel-food-system-into-fossil-fuel-free-biodiverse-regenerative-food-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/soil-not-oil-transforming-the-industrial-fossil-fuel-food-system-into-fossil-fuel-free-biodiverse-regenerative-food-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Not Oil: Transforming the Industrial Fossil Fuel Food System into Fossil Fuel Free, Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vandana Shiva: When the World is on the Boil, it&#039;s Time to Turn to the Soil\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENcs8HLSZqw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>13 Oct 2023 &#8211; <em>Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change &#8211; <\/em><em>How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth&#8217;s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. Working with nature to address environmental ills.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fossil agriculture and food systems are destroying the climate, biodiversity and our health. More than 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions come from an industrial fossil food system of producing, processing, distributing food.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35268 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-640x486.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-640x486.png 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-900x683.png 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-600x456.png 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-450x342.png 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-200x152.png 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001.png 964w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35268\" data-attachment-id=\"35268\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/soil-not-oil-transforming-the-food-system\/image001-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001.png\" data-orig-size=\"964,732\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001-640x486.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image001.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/article\/entries\/4357-food-and-climate-change-the-forgotten-link\" >https:\/\/grain.org\/article\/entries\/4357-food-and-climate-change-the-forgotten-lin<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/article\/entries\/4357-food-and-climate-change-the-forgotten-link\" >k<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Industrial agriculture and its food systems are fossil fuel systems. The fossil fuel chemicals like nitrogen fertilizers have disrupted the planetary nitrogen boundary. The monocultures promoted for fossil fuel inputs are driving loss of biodiversity and genetic diversity, and species extinction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35276 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-640x640.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-640x640.png 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-900x898.png 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-600x599.png 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-450x449.png 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003.png 966w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35276\" data-attachment-id=\"35276\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/soil-not-oil-transforming-the-food-system\/image003-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003.png\" data-orig-size=\"966,964\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image003\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-640x640.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kentuckypress.com\/9780813166544\/the-violence-of-the-green-revolution\/\" >https:\/\/www.kentuckypress.com\/9780813166544\/the-violence-of-the-green-revolution\/<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fossil agrichemicals on which industrial food systems are based are driving plants, insects, and birds to extinction. Synthetic fertilizers kill soil organisms, pesticides and insecticides kill insects, herbicides kill plants.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Carson claimed that\u00a0at the heart of our motivation to introduce poisons into the environment lies a deeply held and outdated philosophy\u2014one that could ultimately lead to our undoing: \u201cThe \u2018control of nature\u2019 is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy when it was supposed \u00a0that nature exists for the convenience of man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the submissions to the Plant Genetic Resources conference in Leipzig in 1995, 75% plant biodiversity in agriculture had been lost due to industrial monocultures.<\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-10-three-quarters-total-insect-population-%2520lost.html\" >recent German study shows<\/a>, 75% of insects have disappeared. Another <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/returntonow.net\/2018\/03\/25\/frances-%2520bird-population-collapses-due-to-pesticides\/\" >study from France<\/a> has called the disappearance of birds in France as a biodiversity oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>Pesticide and fertilizer use has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/news\/story\/farming-linked-to-decline-in-birds-5648012\/%23:~:text=Pesticide%2520and%2520fertiliser%2520use%2520has,%252C%2520the%2520decline%2520is%252060%2525.\" >been linked to the decline in European bird populations<\/a>, a study has found. There are around<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2216573120\" > 800 million fewer birds in Europe now than 40 years ago<\/a>, a drop of 25%. But in wild farmland birds, which rely on insects for food, the decline is 60%.<\/p>\n<p>BirdLife International\u2019s authoritative report,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SOWB2022_EN_compressed.pdf%2522%2520%255Ct%2520%2522_blank\" >State of the World\u2019s Birds 2022,\u00a0<\/a>estimates that there are now nearly<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/2023\/06\/06\/industrial-farming-kills-billions-of-birds\/\" > three billion fewer wild birds in Canada and the U.S<\/a>. than a few decades ago,<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/01\/220112154933.htm\" >Researchers found that increased farm sizes resulted<\/a> in a 15 per cent decline in bird diversity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/world-energy-outlook-2021\" > International Energy Agency<\/a>: \u201cOil use as a petrochemical feedstock is the only area to see an increase in demand.\u201d As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/srccl\" >the IPCC notes in a 2019 report<\/a> on climate change and land, nitrogen fertilizer production has increased nearly ninefold since 1961, reaching a staggering 123 million tonnes in 2020. Fossil fuel fertilizers contribute to a greenhouse gas that is 2300 times more damaging to the Climate than CO2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fossil Fuel Free Biodiverse Regenerative\u00a0 Food Systems for Real\u00a0 Solutions to Climate Change<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35284 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-640x391.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-640x391.png 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-1024x626.png 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-768x470.png 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-1536x939.png 1536w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-2048x1252.png 2048w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-900x550.png 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-600x367.png 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-450x275.png 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-200x122.png 200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35284\" data-attachment-id=\"35284\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/soil-not-oil-transforming-the-food-system\/image005-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005.png\" data-orig-size=\"2267,1386\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image005\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-640x391.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image005-1024x626.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small> Image: Global Lifecycle GHG Emissions from Nitrogen Fertilizer The emissions from the full life cycle of chemical fertilizers are 1.1 Billion tonnes equivalent of CO2. Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ciel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fossils-Fertilizers-and-False-Solutions.pdf\" >https:\/\/www.ciel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fossils-Fertilizers-and-False-Solutions.pdf<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fossil fuel free, biodiversity-based regenerative organic agriculture maximises photosynthesis,\u00a0 nature\u2019s technology of carbon capture which also produces food and oxygen. It is nature\u2019s technology that regulates climate and has cooled the planet for over 4 billion years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biodiversity-based organic farming which intensifies photosynthesis is a climate and food solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through her self organisation and self regulation, the living Earth and her biodiversity <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/gaia-hypothesis\" >reduced the carbon rich atmosphere of the planet from 4000 ppm to 250 ppm<\/a>, from 98% CO2 to 0.03% CO2. The Earth reduced her temperature from 290 degrees without life to 13 degrees with biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>Working according to Nature\u2019s ecological laws, intensifying biodiversity,\u00a0 regenerating the soil with fossil agrichemical free organic farming can close the emissions gap and contribute to negative emissions by drawing down CO2 from the air and putting it in the plants and soil, growing abundant food while addressing the climate problem.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/article.scirea.org\/pdf\/210317.pdf\" >Andre Leu concludes on the basis of scientific evidence<\/a>, the different system of photosynthesis maximization and returning carbon to the soil, \u201ccould sequester 34.74 Gt of CO2 per year. This is more than the current anthropogenic emissions of 26.88 Gt of CO2 eq per year and would achieve negative emissions. [\u2026] Scaling up regeneration on 10% farms can significantly contribute to achieving the negative emissions needed to limit global warming to 1.5\u00b0C higher than pre-industrial levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jul\/04\/improving-farming-soil-carbon-store-global-heating-target\" >Dr. Jacqueline McGlade also affirms<\/a> that ecological techniques that return living 1% carbon to half the world\u2019s agricultural soils would be enough to absorb about 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide of CO2 per year, which is 32 gigatonnes gap\u00a0 between planned emissions reduction and what is needed to be reduced by 2030 to meet the 1.5 C target.<\/p>\n<p>Organic soils are rich in mycorrhizal fungi which bring nutrients to the plants, while plants give them carbohydrates as food. The symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi is the basis of our food system. It also holds the secret of how soil holds the answer to problems created by oil . <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(23)00167-7?_returnURL=https%253A%252F%252Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%252Fretrieve%252Fpii%252FS0960982223001677%253Fshowall%253Dtrue\" >Global plant communities contribute 13.12 Gt CO2<\/a> to diverse species of mycorrhizal fungi, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2376827-underground-fungi-absorb-up-to-a-third-of-our-fossil-fuel-emissions\/%23:~:text=Underground%2520fungi%2520absorb%2520up%2520to%2520a%2520third%2520of%2520our%2520fossil%2520fuel%2520emissions,-Researchers%2520estimate%2520that&amp;text=The%2520relationships%2520between%2520plants%2520and,global%2520emissions%2520from%2520fossil%2520fuels\" >which is approximately 36% of current CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. <\/a>Chemical-free soils rich in microorganisms and mycorrhizal fungi also increase the nutrition in food.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35292 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-640x608.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-640x608.png 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-768x730.png 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-900x855.png 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-600x570.png 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-450x428.png 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-200x190.png 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007.png 990w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35292\" data-attachment-id=\"35292\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/soil-not-oil-transforming-the-food-system\/image007-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007.png\" data-orig-size=\"990,941\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image007\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007-640x608.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image007.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Image: Soil nutrition available to plants, and nutrition in our food. Soil Nutrition in Organic vs Chemical Farms<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_35308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35308 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-640x362.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-640x362.png 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-1024x579.png 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-1536x868.png 1536w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-900x509.png 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-450x254.png 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009.png 1672w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35308\" data-attachment-id=\"35308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/soil-not-oil-transforming-the-food-system\/222image009\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009.png\" data-orig-size=\"1672,945\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"222image009\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-640x362.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/222image009-1024x579.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medcraveonline.com\/HIJ\/a-comparison-on-soil-biological-health-on-continuous-organic-and-inorganic-farming.html\" >https:\/\/medcraveonline.com\/HIJ\/a-comparison-on-soil-biological-health-on-continuous-organic-and-inorganic-farming.html<\/a> Image: Fungi on Organic vs Chemical Farms<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Regenerating the soil is the most effective way to grow more food and address climate change. Soil not Oil is the path to the future. <b>Soil is the answer to problems that the Age of Oil has created. When the world is on the boil, turn to the Soil.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><small>Based on forthcoming book, <\/small><\/em><small>Climate Change and the Future of Food.<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vandana-shiva.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-208768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vandana-shiva-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND <em>Member<\/em><\/a><em> Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers\u2019 rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/navdanya.org\/\" >Navdanya Trust<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/logo_navdanya-vandana-shiva-e1572937300669.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-146963 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/logo_navdanya-vandana-shiva-e1572937300669.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/navdanya.org\/\" >Navdanya<\/a><em> and the Navdanya movement were created by Dr. Vandana Shiva 30 years ago in India to defend <\/em><strong>Seed and Food sovereignty<\/strong><em> and small farmers around the world. Navdanya pioneered the\u00a0movement of <\/em><strong>seed saving and seed freedom<\/strong><em>, which began in response to\u00a0the crisis of erosion of agricultural\u00a0 biodiversity and introduction of GMOs and patents on seeds through intellectual property rights (IPRs) and so-called \u2018free trade\u2019 agreements. It has long fought against biopiracy, the patenting of indigenous knowledge by self-interested multinational corporations and won cases related to Neem, basmati rice and wheat in India. Navdanya promotes a new agricultural and economic paradigm, a culture of food for health, where ecological responsibility and economic justice replace the present greed, consumerism and competition which have become dominant in society. It aims at regaining the common good as a foundation for a renewed sense of community, solidarity and culture of peace. We strive to achieve these goals through the <\/em><strong>conservation, renewal and rejuvenation<\/strong><em> of the gifts of biodiversity we have received from nature and our ancestors, and to defend these gifts as commons. <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/A\/Downloads\/info@navdanyainternational.org\"><em>info@navdanyainternational.org<\/em><\/a><em> &#8211; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navdanyainternational.it\/en\/about-us-navdanya-international\" ><em>More\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/soil-not-oil-transforming-the-food-system\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 navdanyainternational.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Oct 2023 &#8211; Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change &#8211; How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth&#8217;s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. 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