- Assessing current state of soil data systems
- Building soil data systems to enable investments
- Identify simple soil data collection methodologies
Healthy soil requires healthy systems
Four action labs to make healthy soils measurable, valuable, investable, and politically actionable.
The global soil crisis is not the result of a single policy, practice, or market failure; it is the outcome of multiple interconnected systems that have historically operated in silos.
Farmers lack adequate financial support to transition to sustainable agricultural practices.
Investors and policymakers lack reliable data to guide investment and policy decisions
Markets value food based on commercial attributes rather than its nutritional composition.
Farmers’ voices in international forums lack coherence and strategic coordination
Addressing any one of these challenges in isolation will produce limited results.
Save Soil's strategy is therefore built around four mutually reinforcing pillars: Voice, Evidence, Value, and Capital. Together, these pillars create the enabling conditions necessary for large-scale soil restoration and long-term agricultural resilience.
Four action labs, one system
Each lab brings governments, researchers, farmer organisations, financial institutions and civil society to one table.
Save Soil's Integrated Theory of Change
How the four labs reinforce each other.
Enablers
- Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
- Policy Coherence & Advocacy
- Knowledge Exchange & Learning
- Communication & Awareness
- Innovation & Technology
Healthy soils at scale
- Design finance that values soil as a productive asset
- Create incentives for long-term soil stewardship
- De-risk investment in regenerative agriculture
- Mobilize blended and impact capital
- Strengthen farmer organizations and networks
- Co-create solutions with communities
- Advocate for enabling policies and investment
- Amplify diverse voices in decision-making
- Generate evidence on soil-nutrition-health linkages
- Promote nutritious, soil-friendly food systems
- Engage consumers and the food sector
- Build demand for soil-positive products
Investment in monitoring, digital infrastructure and data innovation
Evidence on soil health, impacts and practices informs policies and empowers stakeholders
Healthy soils reduce risk and increase productivity, creating bankable opportunities and better returns
Farmer & community insights shape relevant solutions; policies create incentives for healthy, nutritious, soil-positive food systems
Outcomes
- Enabling Policies & Institutions
- Increased Investment
- Regenerative Practices at Scale
- Empowered Communities
- Investment & Resources
- Data & Knowledge Flow
- Voice & Influence
- Value & Market Feedback
- Enablers & Feedback Loops
Systemic impact
- Food Security
- Climate Resilience
- Water Security
- Biodiversity
- Rural Prosperity
- Human Wellbeing
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About Save Soil
A global people's movement launched by Conscious Planet to address the rapid degradation of agricultural soils, through farmer-driven projects, policy advocacy, and citizen awareness.
250,000
farmers in India supported to move to regenerative practices, including agroforestry
Backed by, among others
- UNEP
- FAO
- UNCCD
- WFP
- IUCN
Save Soil Action Labs
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