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Summary

Grocery prices are expected to rise globally as soil degradation, driven by overfarming, deforestation, and climate change, reduces farmland productivity.

The UN estimates 33% of the world’s soils are degraded, with 90% at risk by 2050. Poor soil forces farmers to use costly fertilizers or abandon fields, raising prices for staples like bread, vegetables, and meat.

Experts advocate for sustainable practices like regenerative agriculture, cover cropping, and reduced tillage to restore soil health.

Innovations and government subsidies could mitigate impacts, but immediate action is critical to ensure food security.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Millennial and Gen-Z soil is 'quiet quitting'"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

One of solution to this problem is veganic farming.

Agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and biodiversity loss, mostly through deforestation for the cultivation of animal feeds; enteric fermentation from ruminants like cattle, fertilizers and manure; and soil degradation from intensive farming practices. There is currently a push to transform our farming systems to attempt to alleviate the almost-assured catastrophic burden of increasing amounts of atmospheric carbon. Many forms of agriculture claim they have evolved to follow a more regenerative form of agriculture by increasing soil organic matter (SOM), thus capturing said carbon in their soils. This study reports SOM results from one veganic agriculture (VA) farm from a study period of seven years. There was an observed increase of SOM from 5.2% to 7.2%, equating to an increase of 38.46% over the study’s duration, suggesting that VA is an effective farming mechanism for increasing soil organic matter utilizing 100% plant-based regenerative practices and materials to nourish the soil. The VA farm also realized respectable yields per hectare, reporting a 46% increase in total crop production. This was all achieved by growing a diversity of plant-based crops, implementing four-year crop rotations, building soil fertility through plant-based inputs, cover cropping, and leaving the farm’s fields covered as often as possible. Additionally, by its processes, the VA farm fully eliminated the industrial chain of animal agriculture and associated land use and methane emissions, suggesting VA to be a holistically regenerative form of agriculture, in comparison to animal-based forms of any other system.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Expected to rise? Check your receipts; they’ve been rising.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, we know. Everyone knows. But if you think this is bad, you have no idea how much worse it can get.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

how much worse it ~~can~~ will get.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

Oh sure, but I bet you . . . drive a car!?! Yyeeahh! So let's all remember to thank those wonderful oil gas and coal giants who make our wonderful lifes so wonderful and totally didn't kill the planet Chinese hoax ok thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Even the soil is quiet quitting these days!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

luckily we all have the excess given the low housing and health insurance costs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Who was that one posting soil memes on Lemmy? Wasn't it track_shovel?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So lets keep paving over farmland to build single family homes instead of building real cities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Real cities aren't profitable enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Suburban sprawl isn't really profitable either, our system is flawed to let developers take the profits while the municipality cannot afford to maintain the neighborhood a few years down the line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I take your meaning, but I disagree it's not profitable, developers make enormous profits scraping the land of life and slapping concrete and paint on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

uh-oh, it's the worst thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

"Yeah, but it's Biden's fault"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Veganic farming is the solution to this problem.

It avoids nitrates, run-off and e-coli outbreaks.

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