Climate change and the world’s growing population is further increasing the importance of food security. Healthy soils are crucial as they underpin food security and biodiversity. This was why special recording and measurement techniques were developed for the Sounding Soil project in order to provide a quick and simple way to measure and analyse soil activity and biodiversity in future.<\/p>
\u201cIn contrast to air pollution or clean (drinking) water, people have little understanding of the soil on or in which their food is grown,\u201d says Sabine Lerch, Project Manager at Biovision Foundation for Ecological Development. In fact, the amount of healthy soil in Switzerland has dramatically declined in recent decades. Intensive cultivation, the use of mineral fertilisers and chemical pesticides together with developments that seal off soils are all reducing soil fertility. The initial results from Sounding Soil demonstrate a difference between extensively and intensively cultivated soils. Whereas recordings from organic soils with their countless living organisms produce a diverse soundscape, there is a silence from a field of conventional sugar beet or industrial-scale potatoes.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>
Sounding Soil is a cooperation between the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), the Swiss Soil Monitoring Network (NABO) at Agroscope, ETH Zurich and the Biovision Foundation.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Biovision is one of those listening carefully as it is using the installation \u201cSounding Soil\u201d to raise the public\u2019s awareness of the importance of our soils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2476,"template":"","exclude-from-search":[],"newsletter":[],"region":[227],"projektthema":[239],"themen":[253,49],"class_list":["post-4250","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","region-switzerland","projektthema-sounding-soil-en","themen-knowledge","themen-wissen"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 22:36:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"newsletter","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exclude-from-search","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exclude-from-search?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"projektthema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projektthema?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"themen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/themen?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}