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We all know that diet matters and have heard the adage "you are what you eat."  But dig a little deeper and it becomes clear that what our food eats—how we grow crops and raise animals—rounds out the story. 

Farming practices intimately influence soil health and those that comprise modern farming—frequent tillage and excessive synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and pesticide use—have degraded agricultural soils.  As a consequence, the beneficial compounds in foods that underpin human health are either reduced, as with phytochemicals.  Or, in the case of fats in meat and dairy, their proportions are changed.

Yet farmers in both the industrialized and developing worlds are improving soil health through changing their practices. Combining ancient wisdom with modern science reveals ways of farming that provide sufficient yields and foods suffused with the array of compounds central to human health.  It turns out that what’s good for us is good for the land too.