Originally published in Food Tank.
During a Summit hosted by Food Tank and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) during Climate Week NYC, panelists connected the dots between ecosystem health, food waste, and policy levers that can be utilized to protect the future of the climate.
Crucially, this future lies in soils. Any work we do now to strengthen soil quality will have lasting impacts for generations to come, panelists said.
“There is no life limit on a healthy soil,” says Gerardo Martinez, a farmer, the Owner of Wild Kid Acres, and CEO of Global Alliance of Latinos in Agriculture. “You can continue to build it and build it, and it will just become more and more productive.”
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