The chair of IPBES, Prof Sir Bob Watson, told BBC News that around 3.2 billion people worldwide are suffering from degraded soils.
Soil expert Prof Jane Rickson from Cranfield University, UK, added:"The thin layer of soil covering the Earth's surface represents the difference between survival and extinction for most terrestrial life. In the US, some soils are being restored as forests take over poor quality land previously worked by small farmers, but others are still being degraded.The UK is not immune either. Some maize fields in south-west England suffer major soil loss with heavy rainfall because growing maize leaves bare soil exposed. Heavy rain is more likely under climate change.
And on the chalky hills of southern England, chemical-intensive crop farming is said to have caused the loss of over a foot of soil in some places.
Oh my days more crap !
What next, it is pathetic. We live and breathe. It is a natural cycle. Maybe we have too many people in areas, they are building & building in areas, surely this is having a huge impact? Building on every green space, knocking down a school, turning it into housing?
Any farm animal and rotten plants and mushrooms can fertilise the land.....?
If a cow poops in the farmyard today, the farmer collects it and spreads it on the fields. To suggest that they need to have a mobile milking parlour so that cows poop directly in the field to 'solve' this is just silly.
Total bollocks🙄
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Also need to recognise AgriTech & the specific fertilising & irrigation activities that now take place because of advances. This enables farmers to reduce artificial fertiliser application & target watering instead of a blanket approach. Too many blind spots in this article
Soil damage caused by big business, big scale, multi national, blue chip Corp farming not local small scale farmers. The farms around my village are a mix of dairy, arable, sheep & beef but the soil is in good nick & organically fed with animal manure/green manure
Climate change 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Jog on ya madheads
No such thing!
my oklahoma farm did blow away-blow away it blown away....
So it has nothing to do with fossil fuels, car emissions, planes, industry. It's back to cow's flatulence and Brazilian rain forest. Always knew it was their fault! Get story straight. Stop fighting for research grants! Truth?
For the love of God!!!!! Every time anything living does anything it causes climate change, including plants. Stop with the fear mongering.
If people weren’t so obsessed with slugs and snails and to idle to put rubbish in bins and farmers spraying everything in site I mean what is the point of farmers leaving a 6 foot margin around fields and sowing wild flower seed for wildlife and then spraying it 8 times a year
If we plough all of the climate change bullshit in to the ground, this will improve the soil and world no end.
Is there any truth in feeding cows seaweed dramatically reduces carbon emissions into the air?
“The International Year of Soils, 2015 (IYS 2015) was declared by the Sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly on December 20th, 2013 after recognizing December 5th as World Soil Day.” The UK government did nothing then. It’ll do nothing now.
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