FFAR envisions a world where nutritious, affordable food is grown on thriving farms. Healthy soil is a key component for making this vision a reality. The Soil Health Challenge Area enriches soil by building knowledge, fueling innovation and enabling the adoption of soil management practices.
The Soil Health Challenge Area supports research on:
- Soil-human health connections
- Linkages between farm productivity and soil health
- Benefits of sound soil practices
- Barriers to adoption of soil health practices
- Microbiome
FFAR is expanding and exploring transdisciplinary approaches that draw linkages between soil health and farm productivity, economics, human health, management practices and other areas. FFAR continues to support research that produces open, data-driven, innovative results that help farmers make productive and sustainable decisions to conserve and improve soil health, while supporting thriving farms.
Download the full Healthy Soils, Thriving Farms Vision Statement to learn more about the strategic direction of this FFAR Challenge Area.