Australian Farm Institute (AFI), Media Release, 21 September 2023
Farmers aspire to leave their farm to the next generation in a better condition they received it in. Improving and securing soil is an important part of achieving such an aspiration.
‘Human connectivity’ refers to producers’ relationship with their soil and the farming practices they implement. Although this is a key indicator of soil security, there is currently no way to measure this.
The University of Sydney and AFI are undertaking research to deliver a process to measure human connectivity to soil.
You can assist this research by completing a short self-assessment tool which will not only provide anonymised data to paint a picture for the research, but also help identify your own strengths and opportunities for soil management skills development.
Measure your soil connectivity here.
The assessment should take less than 15 minutes. On completion, you’ll receive a personalised report highlighting:
- your soil connectivity skills, and
- opportunities to improve management of six key threats that impact soil security.
Get your personalised soil connectivity report and help us with our ground-breaking research on measuring the human influence on soil security while you’re at it.
Please also share this link through your networks and forward it to any landholder organisations-https://soilconnectivity.farminstitute.org.au/.
NB: The evaluation is entirely confidential and selecting pin-point soil location data is not mandatory.
