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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the report from the Soil Health INstitute on The
Relationships between Soil Health and Food Nutritional Quality.

Apology for any cross-posting.

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Subject: The Relationships between Soil Health and Food Nutritional Quality
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Enriching Soil, Enhancing Life
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*Soil Health Institute Publishes Report Evaluating Literature on the
Relationships between Soil Health and Food Nutritional Quality*

FEBRUARY 3, 2022 – MORRISVILLE, NC – The Soil Health Institute (SHI), the
non-profit charged with safeguarding and enhancing the vitality and
productivity of soils, has released “Exploring the Relationship Between
Soil Health and Food Nutritional Quality: A Summary of Research Literature.”

Many on-farm and environmental benefits are associated with improving soil
health. However, less is known about the relationship between soil health
and food nutritional quality. Such a relationship would conceivably drive
more demand for food grown using soil health practices, thereby bringing
more environmental benefits to scale.

Supported by a grant from Hellmann’s, the Soil Health Institute partnered
with the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts
University to explore these relationships using data published in the
peer-reviewed scientific literature. The team found that very few studies
reported sufficient data on the full breadth of crop and soil management,
soil health measurements, and food nutritional quality required for
thoroughly evaluating those relationships. For example, studies
demonstrating differences in nutritional composition of food under
different management practices often did not measure key parameters needed
for assessing soil health.

Based on these findings, the team recommended that future studies be
designed and conducted on this topic that include:

   - well-defined and consistently applied management practices;
   - standardized, uniformly applied measurements of soil health, inherent
   soil properties (beyond those changed by management), crop growth, crop
   nutrient concentration, and total crop nutrient content; and
   - interdisciplinary teams consisting of agronomists, soil health
   scientists, human nutritionists, and others that are needed to interpret
   the connections among management practices, soil health, and nutritional
   quality of the food produced.


Authors of the report are Dana Bourne, former graduate student at the
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, and
current Sustainable Agriculture Manager at Stonyfield Organic; Timothy
Griffin, Ph.D., Division Chair for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment
at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University;
and Wayne Honeycutt, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Soil Health Institute.

“Little research of this nature has been conducted,” said Dr. Honeycutt.
“However, everything we know about how improving soil health increases
nutrient availability in soils and nutrient uptake by plants points to the
likelihood of increasing food nutritional quality using soil health
management systems. Consequently, I do not find these results discouraging,
but only a reflection of the fact that we were limited to evaluating data
from studies not really designed to address the question we wanted to
answer. It is our hope that the guidance provided in this publication can
serve the broader community in designing specific experiments that may lead
to discovering causal relationships between soil health and human health
through the crop nutrition pathway. In the meantime, we will continue
advancing adoption of regenerative soil health systems knowing that their
benefits to water quality, climate change mitigation, and other connections
to human health are already well established.”

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ABOUT SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE
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safeguard and enhance the vitality and productivity of soil through
scientific research and advancement. We bring together leaders in soil
health science and the industry to help farmers, ranchers, and landowners
adopt soil health systems that build drought resilience, stabilize yield,
and benefit their bottom line. The Institute’s team of scientists, holding
doctorates in various soil science and related disciplines, has developed
highly effective soil health targets and standardized measurements to
quantify progress at achieving regenerative and sustainable agricultural
systems, and leads the cutting-edge fields of carbon sequestration and
decoding the soil microbiome. Healthy soils are the foundation for
rejuvenating our land. Together, we can create a secure future for all,
mitigate the effects of climate change, and help agriculture and
organizations meet production and environmental goals at scale. Visit
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