Our strategic challenge
We have built a strong track record of supporting curious farmers and producers to move from awareness to confidence and implementation. Our central strategic challenge now is how we help more farmers, faster – reaching the critical mass our mission calls for – without simply scaling up our activity at the same rate.
Our approach is to focus on strategies that multiply our impact beyond the farmers we work with directly. For example, we support experienced and passionate farmers to become mentors and champions and upskill agronomists and advisers to efficiently extend reach. We also engage strategically with institutions to help remove barriers affecting every farmer, not just the ones we work with.
Read our Strategic Plan
In it you’ll find our vision, our mission, the values that guide us, and our strategy for 2026-29.
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Together, we can create a ripple effect, supporting more farmers to adopt regenerative approaches to agriculture faster.
OUR FOCUS
Our work is guided by five strategic pillars, ensuring that we are clear on our specific role and precise in the contributions we make.
1. Mainstreaming regenerative approaches to agriculture
Outcome – Regenerative approaches to agriculture become normalised as part of mainstream agriculture.
2. Building farmer skills, knowledge, tools and resources
Outcome – Farmers develop the mindsets, skills, knowledge, tools and resources to take action.
3. Strengthening regenerative agricultural communities
Outcome – Farmers have access to communities that provide social infrastructure and support, with local mentors and champions and strong peer networks that sustain adoption over time..
4. Amplifying farmer perspectives across the food and agriculture system
Outcome – Farmer knowledge and perspectives are amplified and integrated into the broader food system through policy, research, value chains and industry mechanisms, so that institutional settings actively enable rather than hinder the transition.
5. Maintaining a high functioning organisation set up to deliver great work
Outcome – Soils for Life is a thriving organisation that is widely regarded as a trusted and constructive partner, with a happy team consistently delivering high quality and impactful work.
Our vision is a world where healthy soils and functional landscapes sustain thriving regional communities, a secure supply of nutritious food and resilient agricultural enterprises for generations to come.
Our mission is to inspire and support a critical mass of Australian farmers and producers to adopt approaches to agriculture that regenerate soils and landscapes.
HOW WE WORK
