Sounding Soil – healthy soil makes noise | Biovision - Stiftung für ökologische Entwicklung

Consumption, Knowledge, Politics

We co-create Switzerland’s sustainable foodsystem

2022 Biovision provided important impulses in Switzerland for a future-oriented nutrition policy with the project “Ernährungszukunft Schweiz”.

Agriculture

Food security in rural Ethiopia

In southwestern Ethiopia, rural households are struggling with soil degradation and crop failures. Working together, they are taking measures to limit soil erosion and also to diversify their sources of income, in order to protect themselves from crises.

Knowledge, Politics

Healthy soil is life!

Soil is the fundament for life on Earth, provides food and feed for all creatures above and below ground and plays a major role in climate protection! Soils bind atmospheric CO2, absorb rain water while prevent flooding, store water in long dry seasons, and buffer the extreme adverse impacts of the fast changing climate.

Knowledge

Soil – The voice of biodiversity

The research of Marcus Maeder, main initiator of the Biovision project Sounding Soil, shows scientifically for the first time: the biodiversity and intensity of underground life can be measured acoustically.

Sounding Soil – healthy soil makes noise

Anna Schöpfer explains what the sound of Swiss soil tells us

Marcus Maeder, artist and researcher shows how to capture the sound

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