World Soil Day and its campaign is ‘Soils: Where food begins’ raises awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management and encouraging societies to improve soil and ecosystem health. Tonight, Monday, December 5, at the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) 'Soil for Food!' evening event, keynote presentations will link together healthy soil, food, and human nutrition.
There is still time to register to attend in-person or virtually at go.osu.edu/epndec22.
'Soil for Food' connects the work of the 2020 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Rattan Lal, distinguished university professor of Soil Science and Director of CFAES Dr. Rattan Lal Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, and leading researchers building tools designed for universal access to soil health and agricultural knowledge. As a demonstration, Dr. Dorn Cox, Research Director for the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, will share about OpenTEAM field tools, remote sensing, agroecosystem models and decision support tools.
Dr. Jennifer Garner, a Registered Dietitian and Assistant Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy, will engage the audience in a discussion of connecting low-income households to healthy foods through food systems.
These imminent soil health, policy, and land management specialists will join together in a panel conversation with Dr. Jill Clark, associate professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and founder of the Ohio Food Policy Network, to link together soil, food, and human nutrition.
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