Soil & More Impacts (SMI) is a specialized consultancy in the field of sustainable agriculture and food supply chain. Our team of international soil, sustainability and strategy experts designs pragmatic and scientifically robust solutions for Farming, Food and Finance clients, since 2007. To create ‘true net value’ we deliver services ranging from concrete operational capacity building in the field, carbon and true cost accounting to stakeholder-supported strategy development. Since 2022 we are part of sustainable AG and denkstatt Gruppe.
Studied at the University of Applied Science of Bremen and at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm.
Jan-Marten Krebs is an experienced sustainability professional working in the fields of corporate responsibility, energy efficiency and climate change since 2001. He is a trusted consultant to organizations developing and implementing corporate responsibility and climate strategies.
Part of his work includes conducting materiality analyses, building up governance structures, and defining goals and KPIs for the achievement of those goals. Under the topic of climate change his focus covers the Paris Agreement and the science based targets as well as the calculations for corporate footprints. These activities require working with employees across the company, from the operations level up to the management and executive level.
Furthermore, he conducts workshops and training sessions for managers as well as coaching sessions for CR-Departments on the topic of CR and climate strategies (numerous DAX-listed corporations as well as family-owned and medium-sized companies). He has gathered international project experience since 2003 (CHN, TUR, IND, COL, THA, MAL, RSA and several European countries).
Jan is the founder and director of sustainable AG.
Inka joined SMI in 2014 to support our clients with supplier assessment and development. She provides advice and training on soil fertility, composting and climate resilience, leads projects on adapted organic fertilisation, emissions reduction and soil building, and develops related training concepts and materials.
She is an agronomist who has worked in the international organic sector for over 20 years, focusing on production, certification, lobbying, product trade and quality, marketing and training. Her motivation is to protect the environment by encouraging and empowering people to create sustainable, locally adapted and diversified agricultural systems.
When she is not visiting farmers, she produces compost and grows organic vegetables near the Lüneburg Heath.
Anne grew up in Northern Germany where she spend a lot of time at the farms of both her grandparents. Running over the green fields and feeding the pigs was always her favorite.
Anne studied communications and engaged herself in a student initiative for ethics in education and practices (sneep). Her working life started in a consultancy for corporate responsibility Schlange & Co., Hamburg, Germany. The team mainly develops sustainability strategies and reports for larger sized companies in Europe and conducts studies for German ministries and industries. With this experience Anne went to Egypt to work at SEKEM, a company that started 1977 to harvest herbs in the middle of the desert. Since then, the company has grown to a group of seven companies covering various supply chain steps of agriculture and its products. Anne was responsible for the sustainability management framework – the Sustainability Flower – and reporting on its basis. Here she found again her roots in agriculture.
Since 2012 the work on the Sustainability Flower, which is originally an initiative of various companies from the organic sector, has been continued within the Soil & More Foundation. Relocating back to Hamburg, Anne focused on using the Sustainability Flower as basis for farm and company analysis and reporting. She developed expertise in IT solutions and data processing. Today, she brings in this knowledge to Soil & More Impacts.
Sophie Wolters joined SMI in April 2021 as Account Manager and is the point of contact for our customers and partners worldwide.
Prior to her joining SMI, she has been working downstream the supply chain in a variety of positions in the food service and hospitality industry with a strong focus on project management, digitalisation and leadership. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Austria and the UK.
When she is not advising our clients, she is still invested in foods – cooking, gardening or as a member of Slow Food – alternatively she hikes, bikes and runs.
Philip has been on board with Soil & More since May 2021. As part of the sales team, he helps drive the digital solutions and supports with his agricultural knowledge.
As a city kid with family connection to agriculture, he spent many summers in the field. Driven by the responsibility in agriculture and the sustainability debate, he studied organic agricultural science. He gained diverse experience along the value chain, from farms to research institutions to processors, regionally and internationally. Always having one hand in the soil and the other hand on digitals.
He firmly believes that truly sustainable actions are possible – and sees Soil & More as an important facilitator.
Eric joined Soil & More Impacts in 2019 as Impact Assessment Specialist to provide support with True Cost Accounting and Life Cycle Assessments and with extracting valuable insights from huge datasets to support analysis at clients’ level.
Having obtained degrees in Environmental Science and Land Reclamation and Restoration, Eric worked in the development cooperation sector with a focus on soil conservation and sustainable land management before his time at SMI.
Eric is passionate about innovative agricultural practices and sustainable food systems that can feed a growing human population while protecting biodiversity and our natural resource base.
Maike joined Soil & More in 2015 and since then has led various large and small projects – from soil fertility workshops, CO2e balancing and true cost assessments to perennial projects on the agricultural level with the aim of developing social and ecological conditions in a sustainable way.
Maike is an environmental engineer with a focus on environmental assessment and holds a master’s degree in marine ecosystem sciences.
She is passionate about nature and is also enthusiastic about other people and cultures. She is convinced that only long-term sustainable changes in our consumption-oriented lifestyle will make our environment worth living in the future.
Julia supports our projects in the areas of CO₂ and TCA. She has a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering with a focus on environmental assessment and previously worked for a consultancy in environmental and chemical management.
When she is not in the office, she likes to jump in the water and wrestle for the ball in underwater rugby.
She is passionate about actively advocating for sustainable solutions to the emerging challenges of climate change. Only if society learns to use the world’s natural resources responsibly will our livelihood and environment be preserved in the long term.
Martin joined the Soil & More Impacts team in April 2021. He works predominantly in the areas of true cost accounting and carbon footprint. Martin worked in an environmental NGO for about five years after studying environmental engineering. There he worked on a wide range of sustainability topics from natural rubber to natural capital. A key topic from Martin’s NGO time is true cost accounting in different industries and companies (construction, tourism, plastics, hospitality).
In his spare time, Martin is currently working on a children’s audio play and exploring the natural world around him.
His vision is to work on methods that can make the complex topic of sustainability understandable in such a way that it can be taken into account in all areas of life. A particular concern is the consideration of biodiversity and species diversity.
Rainer joined Soil & More in 2014. He is mainly responsible for R&D, knowledge management and project implementation in agriculture and agroforestry, especially in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes on-site and remote assessments of soil fertility and raw material security. On the other hand, it comprises designing the scientific basis of the company’s projects, carbon sequestration projects and submodel development of a risk assessment tool.
Previous stations were at Perspectives Climate Change GmbH where he contributed on international carbon projects. After graduating at Technical University of Dresden (Germany) in Physical Geography (2005), he developed a science background at universities in Germany and Spain in soil science, soil carbon and sampling campaigns. In 2020, he successfully finished his PhD project about the detection of changes in agricultural soils of a German soil monitoring network.
Tanja joined Soil & More Impacts in 2019. She supports the team with impact assessments, reporting and general project management.
She completed a bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Nutrition and gained experience in product development. As she was interested in more than only the nutritional value of food, she started studying her master’s in Sustainability Science to learn about the origin of the raw materials and their cultivation.
The fact that our agriculture has a major impact on biodiversity and our climate, motivates Tanja to foster a more sustainable industry and to contribute in creating fertile soil for future generations.
Vitus is with Soil & More Impacts since April 2020. He supports our projects in data processing, research and digitalization of processes.
During and after his studies of Business Informatics at the Technical University of Munich he was engaged in the development of information systems in various industries. With the beginning of his master studies in Sustainability Sciences he focused on ecologically and socially valuable digital products.
Today, global agriculture and forestry are facing enormous challenges – from growing world population to climate change. Vitus wants to take part in mastering these challenges.
Rebecka joined us in April 2020 to support our clients in the area of impact assessment.
As a farm child and studied agricultural scientist, Rebecka supports the team with her agricultural knowledge of a practical and academic nature, especially in Carbon Footprinting and True Cost Accounting. Her function is the interface between agriculture and sustainability. Previously, she worked first in agricultural policy in the German Bundestag and then as an agricultural market analyst in the international beer industry. Besides her work for Soil & More, she leads with her family a livestock and arable farm near Cuxhaven.
Her motto: “Farming the fields of tomorrow!
Clara joined the team in the beginning of 2022 and supports our clients mainly in the areas of GHG accounting and climate strategy consulting. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degree in environmental science and modelling with a focus on climate and oceans.
She approached the topics of “agriculture and food” early on through a personal interest in alternative farming methods and sustainable nutrition. After her studies, she gained first professional experience in this field through life cycle assessments of different crops and processed foods. To bridge the gap from just accounting to visible “impact”, she joined Soil & More Impacts.
Additionally, Clara is also an avid wilderness educator. In her opinion, in addition to scientific knowledge and strategic implementations, it takes a personal connection to nature to be able to protect it holistically.
