Helping the farmers and land managers of tomorrow by providing new tools to measure soil health without the need for laboratories.
Using artificial intelligence to monitor and predict soil health for farmers and growers across Europe.
"The farmers of tomorrow will use their mobile phones as pocket soil laboratories. This will allow them to save on energy, eliminate fertilisers and produce food more efficiently while also getting paid for capturing atmospheric carbon”
We’re going to find out which soil health indicators work best, and work with pilot sites on the ground to test and develop tools in the real world environment.
Mapping soil degradation in Europe
With soil health rising up the EU policy agenda, new science is helping explain where degradation risks are growing. Dr Mehdi Afshar’s recent work provides a timely, continent‑wide assessment. In this blog, Mehdi shares his...
Providing a novel indicator to understand soils’ potential to mitigate climate change
A new international study, carried out as part of the AI4SoilHealth project, has shown that combined measurements of soil organic matter (SOM) and soil organic carbon (SOC) increase our understanding of the carbon storage potential...
Europe adopts its first soil health law
On 23 October 2025, the European Parliament (EP) gave its final approval to the Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (SML)— Europe’s first-ever law dedicated to soil health. This landmark legislation crowns more than a...