[Music] well our food system in large part starts with soil some 90% of the food that we consume here in the EU comes from the land and not all of it within our borders for example the land used to produce this coffee and this chocolate so taking care of the land and the soils that feed us is essential for a secure and sustainable food supply well soils are full of life in one teaspoon of healthy soil you may find from 100 million to 1 billion bacteria and there's more there's algae fungi microscopic insects there's beetles earthworms ants mites and many others together they constitute the biggest concentration of biomass anywhere on the planet soil protects us after the ocean soil is the second largest active store of carbon this means that the soil is an important part of the climate system soil can also store and filter water one cubic meter of soil can store up to 600 L of water which means that the crops can still grow in a case of dry period period in case of the extreme rain soil can protect us from flooding soils are home we make our home from soils and we build them on soils sealing soils for new constructions disrupts the functioning of soils and their ability to sustain ecosystems in Europe every year we lose an equivalent of half the area of Luxembourg to new constructions soils are valuable and vulnerable we need to find our connection to soils [Music]