Digging into Wealth: The Untapped Potential of Healthy Soil for Nature and Economies
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Soil hosts staggering biodiversity — one teaspoon contains more organisms than the entire human population — and can act as a scalable nature-based fix for floods, droughts and carbon if managed right. Analysis with NatUn puts the unlockable economic value at €14 billion from better microbiomes, water-use efficiency, carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling and higher yields. Soil science lags — 85% of plant/ecosystem publications focus above ground — so monitoring, field-linked data, de‑risked 4–6 year investments and soil technologies are the key levers.
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