Sadgati, Soil food web Elaine Ruth Ingham, 73 [1952 – 16 Feb 2026]. Researcher, educator, mentor, public speaker. Groundbreaking microbiologist and a leader in the regenerative agriculture movement. Chief Scientist at the Rodale Institute of America. Developer – the concept of the soil food web. Explorer of soil’s web of life. She championed the critical role of microorganisms in building healthy, sustainable ecosystems. Her influential publications include the Soil Biology Primer; The Soil Foodweb: Its Role in Ecosystems Health; The Soil Foodweb–Soil and Composts As Living Ecosystems. Founder, Soil Foodweb Inc.; Soil FoodwebSchool; Soil Fooweb Foundation. She retired from Soil Foodweb School in October 2025.
She remains an inspiration to NF in general and Soil Foodweb and APCNF’s work in particular. She lives through NF work across the world.
NF – Farming in harmony with nature. NF extension/expansion pathways. 365 day green cover, multi-layered multiple crops, synthetic chemical free. Onto NF journey to Chemical free, on the entire extent, with high diversity, with trees incorporated, animals integrated; Production to local Consumption, Nutrition, Health, local enterprises; input enterprises to input-output enterprises; Farmlands to include unfallowed fallow lands, private lands to all lands, all resources, entire landscape, ecosystem, ecosystem-based adaptation, EbA; NF training to NF apprentice-based extension. Each one mentors/teaches/coaches five. Farmworkers included. Local consumers embedded. Agency of the women and marginalized enhanced. Communities take charge. Local enterprises thrive. Percentage consumer rupee to the producers increased. Ecosystem servicers rewarded well. Benefits, Resilience, and cooling become part of ‘daily’ experience. Systems changed. Policies implemented. Default norms established. Culture adapted. This is the NF based EbA global social ecological livelihoods movement at local levels, locally customized, normed, across. Includes: saturated universalized NF; strengthened forest-adjacent landscapes, buffer zones, biodiversity corridors, interfaces.
20 years. Scales tilted towards NF/EbA. 20%+ local ecosystems, 15%+ families, 10%+ land-resources on board. NF education architecture everywhere. 10M NF community professionals across; 0.1M professional teams to service locations/geographies, 10,000 Integrators, Leaders, Evangelists, et al.
Epstein linked connections are getting booked. Started. How long, how slow, how many. Law catches up in the UK. Hope it starts happening all across. Soon.
AI Impact Summit 2026, 16-20 February at New Delhi is in progress. This is the fourth edition. 2026 Summit goals include: empower people and promote innovation; project India as the service provider for AI for the whole world; democratise access to compute, datasets, and algorithms. 5 days Expo; 2 days of keynote addresses, policy-focused panel discussions, expert roundtables, knowledge compendiums – case books; applied AI seminar; Research symposium; AI solution awards; Summit Dinner; Leaders’ Plenary; CEOs’ roundtable; Summit declaration that may include AI commons, global governance framework.
Amidst this, Bill Gates visited AP. GATES Foundation is expected to support AP in taking health interventions to scale, digital farming, and AI in a big way.
Can we increase AI, deep tech fluency? Can we prevent, reduce growing AI, and deep tech inequity? Can we remain empowered on top with agency in our lives that includes AI?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Decentralized local controls, practices. In N? dharanayoga for 7L.