Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...
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 ...
Although some years after the Rio Summit in 1992 had identified them as priorities, platforms for tying up climate change with biodiversity and land degradation ... to feed the world, mitigate ...
While water erosion continues to be the most serious cause of soil degradation globally ... for centuries by traditional farmers around the world (e.g., China and France), although it has received ...
But human activity is destroying the balance and one-third of the world’s soil is already ... Photograph by Shutterstock Soil degradation, where soil loses the physical, chemical, or biological ...
“The world ... land degradation, Boosting land restoration; Sustainable soil management; and Integrated climate resilient land, soil and water management. The “Global Status of Salt-affected ...
The same picture is seen on farms worldwide. Soils are becoming severely ... practices and urgently finding ways to preserve soil, the global food supply starts to look precarious.
More than $12 billion was pledged to address desertification, land degradation and drought worldwide, especially in the most vulnerable countries, through cooperation and development projects. The ...