SIMBA Policy Brief – Soil, marine and food microbiomes for the achievement of the One Health Goals.

Our society is facing many challenges, due to change in population demographics and dietary habits, increasing levels of chronic disease and an ageing population.
Primary production is vulnerable and dependent on different unsustainable inputs. Without a significant change in current trends, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) continue to rise as well as decline agro-biodiversity and crop productivity. Therefore, the resilience and sustainability of the European agrifood systems needs to be enhanced in ways that simultaneously increase agricultural production, decrease post-harvest food losses and food waste, protect the climate, environment, and health, and finally preserve biodiversity.