Save Soil
The food on your plate is not as nutritious as it was fifty years ago. The reason is under your feet.
Most people think of soil as dirt — inert, interchangeable, always there. It is none of those things. Healthy soil is a living system, dense with microorganisms, fungi, and organic matter that work together to transfer nutrients into the plants that grow in it. When that system is intact, food grown in it is nutritious. When it breaks down — through overuse, chemical saturation, and the removal of organic matter — the food grown in it becomes a shadow of what it was. Studies have found measurable declines in the iron, calcium, and vitamin C content of common vegetables over the last fifty years. The soil did not disappear. It just stopped being alive.
This is already happening, and it is accelerating. In the last forty years, forty percent of the world's topsoil has been lost. The United Nations estimates that at the current rate of degradation, we have roughly sixty years of viable agricultural soil remaining. That is not a distant projection — it is within the lifetime of children alive today. And because degraded soil also releases the carbon it once held, soil loss is not just a food security problem. It is one of the least discussed drivers of climate change, in a system that is already under pressure from every direction.
The Save Soil movement, founded by Sadhguru and accredited by multiple UN agencies including the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, is working to change the policies that govern how agricultural land is managed across the world. The goal is specific: raise the organic content of cultivable soil to a minimum of three to six percent. That single shift would begin to reverse the decline — restoring the living system that grows food, holds water, and stores carbon.
Noticing what the world needs and finding your part in it — some people find that is where wellbeing starts.
Find out more or get involved at savesoil.org (opens in a new tab)