The world’s soils are getting degraded due to erosion, compaction, soil sealing, salinization, soil organic matter and nutrient depletion, acidification, pollution and other processes caused by ...

Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today marked World Soil Day 2022 with the launch of its first global report on black soils, which are at greater risk than ever ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Soil, the ubiquitous living resource beneath our feet, is ...

Over 833 million hectares of soils worldwide are already salt-affected, as shown on the Global salt-affected soils map launched by FAO in October. Estimates indicate that more than 10% of cropland is ...

Rome — A new database on the world's soils improves knowledge of the current and future land productivity as well as the present carbon storage and carbon sequestration potential of the world's soils.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has introduced a new technology of restoring degraded soils in Sub Saharan Africa back to productive soils. The technology creates ...

In partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, FAO commemorated World Soil Day 2020, underscoring the prominence of soil biodiversity and its central role in sustaining life on Earth and securing ...

Rome- Improving management practices in grasslands— large areas covered with grass, especially used for animal grazing— can boost the capacity of soils as carbon sinks, and help countries reach their ...

Rome — FAO-hosted Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity closes with a call to recognize a vital role of soil organisms The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture ...

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Unusually heavy monsoon rains and rapidly melting ...