Africa: Saving Soils in Africa the Only Path Left to a Future

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Could the soil of Africa be developing an unstoppable malaise that will transform our continent from an innocent victim of climate change into its main driver?

African soil is degrading ever faster, losing us millions of hectares a year.

They are counting deeper soil carbon, soil carbon after late rains, next to volcanoes, four years after soils were dried out, and below our forests: in a flurry of carbon measuring to try and map the change. Dr Fowler created the Svalbard Seed Vault, to preserve our global diversity. Now, his mission is soil, and he is not waiting for perfect science.

A possibly prescient starting point was the French call at the 2015 CoP for the globe to commit to adding 4 parts per thousand to its soil organic carbon -- to give the world an extra 20 years to fix its greenhouse gas problem.Yet Africa already has the world's lowest soil organic carbon, and it's falling all the time. Moreover, the incentives for African farmers and for Africa to sort out its lands are few.

 

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