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From: Editor Save Our Soils [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 June 2016 12:19
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Subject: SOS movement continues to grow!
Dear Save Our Soils friends and partners,
Although the International Year of Soils has come to an end, soil awareness is still growing in Europe and the rest of the world. We would like to take this opportunity to inform you about what is going on from the Save Our Soils perspective.
Hurray, 10,000 likes!
The Save Our Soils Facebook page has reached the magic number of 10,000 likes and continues to grow. We use it to share posts about soil awareness or related sustainability issues such as True Cost of Food and seed sovereignty. Like it here.
SOS Fund projects
Last year, the Save Our Soils Fund raised 200,000 euro. Soil & More International has now put part of the money to good use in two projects, one in Ghana and one in Indonesia, where they help cocoa and coffee growers with natural soil improvement. In these projects, Soil & More is working with Progreso. Read more about it here.

UK places soil protection at the heart of environmental policy
Good news from Save Our Soils partner the British Soil Association! They campaigned hard and the UK Parliament listened. On June 2nd, a ground-breaking all-party report calls for vital action to ‘place soil protection at the heart of environmental policy’. Read more about the report here.
People 4 Soil: fighting for EU legislation
We hope the EU will follow Britain. People 4 Soil are fighting hard for soil protection legislation in the EU. 270 organizations have already partnered up with People 4 Soil. Please join them, if you haven’t joined them yet: www.people4soil.eu.
Soilmates to France
Nature & More is shipping Soilmates to France in June. The Soilmate is a carton of organic tomatoes with compost and basil seeds, and information about the soil issue. The idea is to make French consumers aware of the soil issue, and to explain that that they can make a difference by eating organic.

True Cost of Food in stores all over Europe!
Soil erosion is one of many hidden costs of food production. The True Cost of Food campaign calculates the costs involved in soil erosion and communicates those costs in-store, along with other hidden costs. When the True Costs of organic products are compared with conventional products, we can conclude that organic is not expensive but conventional too cheap. For more information, click here.

With kind regards,
Your Save Our Soils team at Nature & More
Alex van Erp
Jana Semt
Michaël Wilde
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