While water erosion continues to be the most serious cause of soil degradation globally, innovative strategies that remediate important soil functions can restore the productivity of eroded soils.
These tiny soldiers can eat four times their own weight in organic waste – and turn it into sustainable fertiliser.
Soil is like the earth's skin — a protective layer that makes up a complex ecosystem. That skin, which supports all life on Earth, is under threat, with scientists from a new global think tank ...
This has come at the expense of nature, causing 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss on land. Soil degradation has reduced the productivity of nearly a quarter of the global land surface, ...
Land degradation affects more than 60% of global soil resources, due mostly to intensive agriculture and deforestation. Degraded land influences the lives of more than 1 billion people who rely on ...
Thiong’o Gachie from Laikipia county has transformed his farm into a self-sustaining system, overcoming soil degradation and ...
Agriculture uses roughly 70% of global freshwater, land and soil degradation are directly undermining agri-food systems with human-induced degradation The first International Soil and Water Forum ...