Walter Jehne: Instructor and Scientific Advisor
Walter Jehne is an internationally known Australian soil microbiologist and climate scientist. After many years as a researcher, he is now a sought after speaker and consultant for land restoration projects, policy work, and investment projects. He is well-known for his strategic vision that we can safely cool regions, and potentially even the global climate, by repairing our disrupted hydrological cycles. His work centers around practical strategies including restoring the structure and function of “the soil sponge” in order to reverse desertification, increase nutritional integrity of crops, and provide resilience to drought, flooding, heat waves, and wildfires.
Jehne was a pioneer researcher on soil carbon, glomalin, mycorrhizal fungi and plant root zone ecology. As a research scientist at CSIRO (Australia’s scientific research organization), Jehne investigated the potential of mycorrhizal fungi to recolonize toxic, degraded soils and rebuild productive biosystems. Later he worked with the Australian national government to foster strategic innovation by changing the paradigm of land management.
He is co-founder of Healthy Soils Australia, Regenerate Earth, and the Rehydrate California Initiative. In 2017, he participated in an invitation-only United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conference in Paris aimed at bringing soil into the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. He is a scientific consultant for large-scale regeneration efforts in several countries, including the UN FAO Farmer Field School Programme, and the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming initiative (APCNF) in India, involving over 750,000 farmers.
As a consultant and public speaker he is known for his ability to explain the complex interrelationships between biology, geology, weather patterns, rainfall, and regional and global heat dynamics, with clear simple language, centered around practical and innovative design solutions.
Jehne was a pioneer researcher on soil carbon, glomalin, mycorrhizal fungi and plant root zone ecology. As a research scientist at CSIRO (Australia’s scientific research organization), Jehne investigated the potential of mycorrhizal fungi to recolonize toxic, degraded soils and rebuild productive biosystems. Later he worked with the Australian national government to foster strategic innovation by changing the paradigm of land management.
He is co-founder of Healthy Soils Australia, Regenerate Earth, and the Rehydrate California Initiative. In 2017, he participated in an invitation-only United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conference in Paris aimed at bringing soil into the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. He is a scientific consultant for large-scale regeneration efforts in several countries, including the UN FAO Farmer Field School Programme, and the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming initiative (APCNF) in India, involving over 750,000 farmers.
As a consultant and public speaker he is known for his ability to explain the complex interrelationships between biology, geology, weather patterns, rainfall, and regional and global heat dynamics, with clear simple language, centered around practical and innovative design solutions.