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Our future depends on soilGlobally, only 15% of land is suitable for growing crops. Maintaining healthy soil on this land is essential if we are to feed an ever-increasing global population. The Earths fertile soils have been taken for granted for so long that currentlyaround a third of all soils in the world is degraded. Worse still, 75% of this degradation is severe.We may think were unaffected here, yet the UK and Europe islosing precious fertile soil at an alarming rate, in the UK alone we lose 2.2 million tonnes of valuabletopsoilevery year.Many non-organic farming practices not only damage our wildlife and our climate they also damage soils. This is not sustainable in the long term yet governments fail to recognise theurgency of the crisiswe are facing.To grow abundant crops for years to come - and tofeed the world- we must keep soils healthy.And so we are launching our most critical campaign yet, to help improve the health of our soil and reduce soil damaging