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Reveal the potential of your soil

Soil is a limited resource yet fundamental to overcome the challenges agriculture has to face nowadays to ensure food security and resilient food systems. As HELLO NATURE we want to offer solutions to help the sector progress globally and sustainably, and we could not deny the crucial role soil has to play for the future of agriculture.
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Facts and figures about soil

  • 95% of our food is grown on soil
  • 80% of the additional needed food must come from already cultivated land
  • 33% of Earth’s land is moderately to highly degraded
  • About 12 mio Ha of land each year are lost to drought and desertification
  • It can take up to 1000 years to form one cm of soil
  • Sustainable soil management could produce up to 58% more food
  • Soil organic matter store twice the quantity of carbon in atmospheric CO2
  • Soil contains more than 25% of Earth’s biodiversity

Soil and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Many global policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), directly and indirectly address land and soil. Many of these SGDs cannot be achieved without healthy soils and a sustainable land use. Below is an overview of the SDGs with strong links to soil. Hover over a highlighted section to learn more.
Soil and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals — European Environment Agency (europa.eu)

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'Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.'

13

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Soil can play a positive role in reducing the impacts of climate change, by sequestering CO2, sustainably managing the resource and restoring degraded soils.

12

'Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns,' through making sure chemicals and waste does not make its way into the air, water and soil, which can have adverse impacts on our health and environment. That is why it is important to sustainably manage and efficiently use soil resources.

6

'Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,' by preserving soil quality because of the role it plays in helping to provide clean water for drinking and agriculture.

11

'Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable,' by ensuring land and soils are protected as they safeguard our cultural and natural heritage.

3

'Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages' by preventing dangerous chemicals, air and water pollution from contaminating land and soil. Additionally, reducing soil degradation can help to increase food production.

2

Improving the quality of land and soil to 'end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.'

“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance Polymath

4 GOALS FOR A HEALTHY SOIL

WHAT IS

We want to help farmers to reveal the potential of their soils by providing advanced analysis based on metabolomics, carried out through an innovative and exclusive process we have developed.

This analysis will allow:

To better understand soil composition

To better understand soil composition

To inform about the presence and the type of microbials (beneficial and pathogenic)

To inform about the presence and the type of microbials (beneficial and pathogenic)

To measure soil health and well-being

To measure soil health and well-being

To supply tailor-made amount of nutritional elements responding exclusively to the real need of the crop

To supply tailor-made amount of nutritional elements responding exclusively to the real need of the crop

To save unnecessary costs, preventing risk of over dosage, environmental pollution and eventually preventing any risk of fertility loss.

To save unnecessary costs, preventing risk of over dosage, environmental pollution and eventually preventing any risk of fertility loss.

To predict diseases risk and to establish a correct pests & diseases management strategy

To predict diseases risk and to establish a correct pests & diseases management strategy

To increase farmer profitability by optimizing soil and input management

To increase farmer profitability by optimizing soil and input management

To predict yield level thanks to specific metabolites

To predict yield level thanks to specific metabolites

Which type of analysis do we perform?

METABOLITES

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NUTRIENTS

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ORGANIC MATTER

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MICROBIALS

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METABOLITES

Plant, fungi, and bacteria all produce metabolites, small molecules involved in metabolic processes. We are measuring all the metabolites present in the soil. In this way we know what type of microbial is active in the soil and the family of the chemical molecule. We detect bacterial and fungal beneficial plant molecules or pathogenic ones. Knowing the relationship between positive, negative and neutral compounds allows us to measure soil health and well-being as never done before. For example, we measure the plant defense metabolites which are related to crop yield and siderophore metabolites that are related to iron nutrition.

NUTRIENTS

In addition to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which they get from the atmosphere and water, plants need other essential nutrients for their growth and health which they uptake from the soil. These are: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), boron (B), molybdenum (Mo). We measure the content of these nutrients including the total and the soluble content, in order to define the correct input management strategy.

ORGANIC MATTER

We measure soil organic matter which is the fraction of the soil that consists of plant or animal tissue in various stages of breakdown (decomposition). Productive agricultural soils should have between 3 and 6% organic matter. There are numerous benefits to having a relatively high stable organic matter level in an agricultural soil. These benefits can be grouped into three categories: physical which include better soil structure and water holding capacity, chemical like higher buffering capacity and CEC, biological such as a better microbiome diversity.

MICROBIALS

Microbial biodiversity is the variety of microbes belowground. The total biomass below ground equals or potentially exceeds that above ground and biodiversity in the soil exceeds that of other terrestrial systems by orders of magnitude, particularly at the microbial scale. Micro-organisms are principal actor of soil’s life and so they play a prominent role in plant development. We are able to measure the total microbial chemical diversity, the fungus to bacterium ratio and to identify the notable microbials classified as beneficial, pathogens and biocontrol agents. This kind of analysis also give the abundance of each species detected: low, average, or high.