Climate change is threatening the future
of life on Earth. Today agriculture is
the source of as much as 20% of the
gases that cause global warming. The good
news? We now know agriculture can help
flip this around, and help make extreme
climate change history. The solution lies
in the soil. When farmers grow healthier
soil, they remove carbon dioxide -the primary
gas responsible for global warming- from
the atmosphere, and capture and store that
carbon in the soil by increasing living
roots, microbial diversity, and stable
organic matter. Removing carbon can have
a huge impact on slow and climate change.
That is why we're launching OpenTEAM
Open Technology Ecosystem for
Agricultural Management. OpenTeam's
vision is to provide everyone everywhere
access to the best agricultural
knowledge, because we now know that we
can improve soil health faster than we
ever thought possible.
Led by Stonyfield, Wolf's Neck Center,
for Agriculture in the Environment, the
Foundation for Food and Agriculture
Research, and the USDA's LandPKS, we're
bringing together a dream team of
farmers, universities, food companies, and
cutting-edge technologists, working
collaboratively to give farmers easier
access to existing tools, to develop new
tools for improving soil health, and to
create an open-source digital platform
to share knowledge and innovation. This
will help a growing network of farmers
anywhere in the world make better
decisions about how to improve soil
health. Healthy soil grows healthier and
more nutritious crops. Healthy soil
reduces the use of costly fertilizers
saving farmers money. Healthy soil
preserves precious resources like water,
and healthy soil retains more water, so
it makes farmland more resistant to
extreme weather like drought or flooding.
With OpenTEAM, agriculture can now move
from "climate change problem" to "climate
change solution,"
and farmers with their supporting
communities around the globe can now
become the new climate heroes. Creating a
nurturing healthy soil is a win-win-win
for farmers, for all of us, and for the
planet. Learn more about these digital
tools and how you can join OpenTEAM
