How betterSoil contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030?
With 2030 fast approaching, global challenges like hunger, climate change, and safe drinking water demand urgent solutions. Explore how betterSoil is driving innovative soil strategies to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals and a sustainable future through direct action.
What are SDGs? What does the 2025 SDG Report signify?
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were first introduced in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. The key objective of the SDGs is to achieve the global developmental goals, set in the identified crucial 17 thematic areas, as shown in the image by the year 2030. Although significant progress has been made, the United Nations (2025) calls for a transformative vision as only 5 years remain to address challenges that have not been met in the past decade, such as:
- hunger,
- lack of safe drinking water
- climate change
- inequalities and lack of sanitation and hygiene.
One of the crucial transformations to occur for a sustainable future remains in food systems, and betterSoil is committed to addressing soil degradation and soil regeneration through this vision (United Nations, 2025; betterSoil, 2025). We here at betterSoil are committed to achieving the UN SDGs through soil solutions utilising science-derived principles such as (a) sustainable soil management, (b) compost, (c) biochar, and (d) agroforestry.
Supporting SDGs 2, 3, 6 & 15 through betterSoil
Global hunger remains a crucial problem to tackle. Soil degradation, often caused by poor management, leads to reduced productivity and increased vulnerability to climate change. (FAO, 2025). Through regenerative soil solutions, the soils under current climate change impacts are better prepared to deliver productive yields and lead to sustained production of food, fibre, and fodder, and a reduction in hunger worldwide when adopted at a large scale (Smith J. et al., 2024).
Additionally, soil health is crucial to environmental and human well-being. Soil health, such as soil structure, alkalinity, acidity, organic matter, and soil biota are crucial to healthy soils, which produce healthy food and a positive impact on human health (Lekberg et al., 2024). UNESCO (2024) has discovered that improper soil management and the loss of soil organic matter may put 90% of global soils at risk of degradation. betterSoil’s solutions, ranging from (a) sustainable soil management, (b) compost, (c) biochar, and (d) agroforestry, all help in maintaining soil’s health.
Moreover, good soil quality leads to reduced chemical pollution as healthy soils help in filtering and buffering pollutants, leading to less chemical contamination and a healthy groundwater table, which further increases access to safe drinking water (Cheng et al., 2021). Additionally, healthy soils play a crucial role in flood regulation, as healthy soil management practices and increased organic matter significantly enhance water infiltration and storage, which remains essential in the face of increasing climate change impacts worldwide (Blanchy et al., 2023). betterSoil is a pioneer in advancing soil health, which directly contributes to good health, reduced hunger, and access to clean water.
Driving Climate Action with Strategic Partnerships
Our Organisation, betterSoil, is committed to SDG 13 of Climate Action. The SDG 13 goals include providing improved education and awareness on climate change and strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards (Filho et al., 2023). We at betterSoil are committed to providing education/training to both schools and companies through partnership (Impact Partnerships | betterSoil).
Our scientific team is committed to providing personalised solutions to growers, food processors and manufacturers. These solutions deliver soil resilience against soil degradation and increased carbon emissions from soil (Biological Climate Solutions | betterSoil). Additionally, improving soil absorption capacity through an increase of organic matter from biochar and compost is further known to lead to flood management by enhancing water sorption capacity (Kah et al., 2018). betterSoil is committed to both education and training programmes through partnerships, and resilience/ adaptation for climate change impacts for soil.
With the objectives and services of our organisations enhancing soil health, which consequently supports sustainable agricultural produce, leading to reduced hunger, good health, and access to clean water and life on land (SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 6, SDG 15 ). Additionally, we achieve education and training through partnerships and climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation through our soil management practices with partners (SDG 13, SDG 17). We at betterSoil are committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Find out more about our services on our website and contribute to our cause.
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Cheng, K., Xu, X., Cui, L., Li, Y., Zheng, J., Wu, W. & Sun, J. (2021). The role of soils in regulation of freshwater and coastal water quality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1834), 20200176. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0176
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2025). FAO report: 1.7 billion people experience lower crop yields due to land degradation. Rome: FAO. Available at: https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/fao-report--1.7-billion-people-experience-lower-crop-yields-due-to-land-degradation/ (Accessed: 15 January 2026).
Filho, W.L., Wall, T., Salvia, A.L. et al. (2023). The central role of climate action in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Scientific Reports, 13, 20582. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47746-w
Kah, M., Sigmund, G., Manga Chavez, P.L., Bielská, L. & Hofmann, T. (2018). Sorption to soil, biochar and compost: is prediction to multicomponent mixtures possible based on single sorbent measurements? PeerJ, 6, e4996. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4996
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